Parkinson’s Unity Walk – 2018
Yesterday was the Parkinson’s Unity Walk in New York’s Central Park. Did we go? Do you even have to ask? We rode the train down the Hudson River to Manhattan. […]
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Michael J. Fox Foundation
More Walking for Parkinson’s – and I Mean MORE
Last week I posted a review of Chapter 2 of Norman Doidge’s book, The Brain’s Way of Healing. The chapter was titled “A Man Walks Off His Parkinsonian Symptoms: How Exercise Helps
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Fox Foundation Endorses “Parkinson’s Pandemic” Paper
Todd Sherer, the CEO of the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, this week wrote an op-ed in The Hill in which he promotes a recently published opinion piece
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Jane Pauley Interviews Michael J. Fox
This morning, Jane Pauley interviewed Michael J. Fox on the TV show “CBS Sunday Morning.” It’s always amazing to hear Michael speak, and in this interview he is straightforward and
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Swimming Lake George – 2017
This past weekend I swam a 2.5 kilometer (1.5 mile) open water race in Lake George, New York, to raise funds for the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research.
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Swimming the Hudson River
Today, with the support of Parky 1, Parky 2 and Parky 3, I swam across the Hudson River from the city of Newburgh to the town of Beacon. Newburgh and
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Help Bruce Swim His Way to a Cure for Parkinson’s!
Summer’s here, and the time is right for dancing in the streets…and swimming long distance open water events to raise funds for the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research!
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Individual Parkies Taking Charge
There’s been a bunch of articles recently about average Jane or Joe Parkies taking charge of their lives and speaking out. Shall we review a few? 1. Mike Wood Lifts
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“Time” for Parkinson’s
The online Time magazine has a great article on Margaret Bourke-White, the famous Life magazine photographer who developed Parkinson’s disease in 1953 and fought it tooth and nail so she could
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DBS Updates: Now Used for Depression, Too
DBS, or Deep Brain Stimulation, has been an option for treating Parkinson’s disease since the late 1980s. Basically, surgeons drill two holes in your skull and insert tiny wires into
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