Dr. Peter LeWitt, professor of neurology at the WSU School of Medicine and a physician with a large Parkinson\'s practice at Beaumont Hospital, is quoted in a story about symptoms of the disease, which afflicts Pope John Paul II. "There are many changes that allow us to treat Parkinson\'s more successfully and manage its side effects better," LeWitt pointed out. Other experts concur that there are new strategies to treat the disease and options to control the pope\'s symptoms for many more months, if not years. In the United States alone, an estimated 60,000 new cases are diagnosed each year and about 1.5 million Americans have the disease. This story, by Pat Anstett, ran widely in Knight Ridder Newspapers throughout the country.