Here’s an update on ping pong’s potential for helping people with Parkinson’s disease. (To read my earlier ping pong posts, just click: click! click! click! click! click! click! click!) CBSN just aired […]
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After I posted yesterday about the revival of the 1937 play “Golden Boy,” one of the people involved with the project (and with the organization which is sponsoring it, stoPD),
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The local NPR radio station in New York, WNYC, just interviewed three people involved in a revival of Clifford Odet’s 1937 play, “Golden Boy.” The play focuses on a young
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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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Robert Smith, a retired landscaping architect who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2006, has just come out with a book that explains how he turned his life around five
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I’m taking a graduate course at my public charter school in the Bronx, and we are reading a book by Caleb Gattegno titled In the Beginning There Were No Words: The
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What do you do if you fall flat on your face? You follow Nat King Cole’s advice: “Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again.” Watch: Listen:
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At the World Parkinson Congress last September, I walked in on the tail-end of an academic session that dealt with nutrition. The speaker ended with a strong pitch that we
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A friend alerted me to this article about an Italian doctor who enjoys playing Irish music and who noticed that a man with Parkinson’s seemed to lose his symptoms when
Cure for Parkinson’s? Try Irish Dancing! Read More »
I’ve posted a few times about the difficulties LGBTQ Parkies face, especially as they age and are in need of housing (click! click! click!). One problem, as exemplified in the case
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