“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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Parkinson’s Disease
Guest Post: 5 Skills You Need To Get Hired As A Live-In Carer
The following is a guest blog post from The Good Care Group in London, England. 5 Skills You Need To Get Hired As A Live-In Carer There is no better
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Daily Marijuana Use *May* Help Parkies
Three articles (click! click! click!) recently reported that people with Parkinson’s disease who smoked medical marijuana daily claimed mostly positive outcomes. In a nutshell: Researchers at Tel Aviv University in
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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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Review: The Parkinson’s Playbook, by Robert Smith
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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Choking Explained?
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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Coffee – Not the Parkinson’s Panacea Anymore…
In many of my earlier Parking Suns posts (e.g., click!) I reported on research that lauded coffee as a means of slowing Parkinson’s progression. For example, the University of Maryland
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More Resources for Seniors with Special Needs
Natalie Kelly and her colleagues at Forever Curious have sent me additional important links for senior citizens, especially senior citizens with special needs like Parkinson’s disease. I’ll paste the links
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Update on Human Stem Cells & Parkinson’s
Two weeks ago I posted the news that a Japanese research team seems to have cured Parkinson’s disease in monkeys by implanting human stem cells in their brains. The stem cells
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Human Stem Cells Seem to Cure Parkinson’s in Monkeys
According to an article in Scientific American, researchers in Japan have successfully used human stem cells to fight Parkinson’s disease in monkeys. The stem cells came not from human embryos, but
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