Coffee Questions
A slew of just-published articles (click! click! click! click! click!) describe a new research study which found that people with early-stage Parkinson’s who drink two cups of coffee a day […]
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Ping Pong’s Potential for Parkinson’s
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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High Intensity Workouts May Slow PD Progression for the Newly Diagnosed
The NY Times reported this week on a research study which found that high-intensity treadmill training slowed the progression of Parkinson’s disease in Parkies who were “newly diagnosed” (that is,
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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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A High-Calorie Diet May Help You Live Longer
According to a recently published study in Neurology (and summarized for the lay reader in Medical News Today), people with Parkinson’s disease need to watch out for weight loss, especially right after
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Simon Stott: “Where Are We Now With Parkinson’s Research?”
Here’s a great, recent video that addresses the question, “Where are we now with Parkinson’s research?” The author/speaker, Simon Stott, is a post-doctoral researcher at Cambridge University, where he focuses
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Parkinson’s Disease – the Next AIDS-like Pandemic?
A recent opinion article in JAMA Neurology declares that Parkinson’s disease may soon be a global pandemic as the world’s population ages and more and more people are diagnosed with
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Parkinson’s Sonnet
I wrote the following sonnet yesterday on the train to see my neurologist. Because if not now, when? Sonnet Suppose I just sit down and pen a poem About what’s
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“Golden Boy” Update: Boxing, Acting, Defeating Parkinson’s
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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“Golden Boy” w/ Parkinson’s
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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