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...Shoulson: There's been a lot of debate as to whether sham surgery is ethical - my feeling is that it's unethical not to use the sham procedure. By using a control group, we are closer to a real answer, not just to affirming whatever we wanted the answer...
...Shoulson, a professor of neurology at the University of Rochester in upstate New York, also chairs the nonprofit Parkinson's Study Group, which investigates and oversees clinical trials for new Parkinson's treatments. Dr. Shoulson spoke with TIME.com Thursday about the study and pointed out a silver lining in the otherwise bleak results...
...Shoulson: Of course. Look, this study, and another, similar study that's going on right now, are very important undertakings for at least two reasons. One, this is a very promising area of research. And two, these studies are done in a systematic, rigorous and controlled fashion - and that's very important for future research...
...Shoulson: No. I don't think we need to be worried about that. My feeling is that in terms of advancing therapeutic treatments, the real issue is not where the cells come from, but where they're going, both in terms of where the cells go physically and in terms of where the whole route of study goes from here...
...October, researchers at Duke University Medical Center went a step further, reporting their discovery of a previously unseen mutation on the parkin gene that appears to link it to late-onset forms of the disease as well. "Once we figure out how that gene functions," says neurology professor Ira Shoulson of the University of Rochester Medical Center, "we could perhaps disrupt it pharmacologically...