Kat,

I'm not supporting the indiscriminate trial of other drugs to relieve
coma or PVS, but if the initial doctor had waited for the results of
double blind studies, no one beyond the first person who was helped by
Zolpidem would have been helped.  The caveat of Hippocrates should
always be followed: "First, do no harm."  

Kendall 

An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's redundant!)

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.

-George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950


-----Original Message-----
From: Kathleen Salkin [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 5:57 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [C-PALSY] An extraordinary medical find

Well, I'd wait for the results of double-blind studies.  So far the  
results seem to be ancedotal, not scientific.

Kat


On 12 Sep 2006, at 20:54, Linda Walker wrote:

Is it possible this could help CP? That the brain cells aren't dead  
but in some permanent state of rest. This is so amazing.

At 08:59 AM 9/12/2006, you wrote:
> If they're right about it effecting GABA receptors, the mechanism  
> may be
> similar to Baclofen, which functions as a GABA agonist.  Wonder if
> they've considered trying other drugs in the people Zolpidem doesn't
> help?  The link may break, so if it does, go to PubMed and search for
> Baclofen GABA agonist.
>
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi? 
> cmd=3DRetrieve&db=3DPubMed&=
> lis
> t_uids=3D8532848&dopt=3DCitation
>
>
> Kendall=20

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