The Nation - News from Nov. 11, 1988

Doctors announced they have implanted fetal tissue into the brain of a patient with Parkinson’s disease in experimental surgery aimed at curtailing the disease’s symptoms. The doctors who performed the surgery at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver said they believed the operation was the first of its kind in the United States. Curt Freed, who headed the surgery team, said the operation has been performed on a few Parkinson’s patients in Mexico and Sweden, but he added the results have been far from satisfactory. Freed said the eight-hour surgery was on a 52-year-old Denver man who has had Parkinson’s for 20 years.