New Drug Approved for PD
The New York Times reports that the USA’s Food and Drug Administration has approved a new drug for Parkinson’s. It’s the first time that the FDA approved a new PD […]
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Navin Kumar – Parkie Ping Pong Powerhouse
I’ve blogged recently about a local tennis table center which hosts a weekly night for people with Parkinson’s disease. But now I’ve met, via email, Navin Kumar, a top-ranked ping-pong athlete
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Coming Out With Parkinson’s: Whom Do You Tell?
Today’s New York Times has an article that asks: If you have a serious medical condition, whom should you tell? One of the people described in the article (the author’s
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Pumping Iron for Parkies
Here’s yet another online article about the importance of physical exercise for people with Parkinson’s disease. This time the article promotes weight training. The perks: – Better Balance. “A 2003
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12 Facts You May Not Know About Anxiety and Parkinson’s Disease
I culled the following points from a half dozen online articles, listed below. I’m keen to learn more about anxiety as it relates to Parkinson’s disease. My neurologist is having
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Reader Response: Have Your Lost Your Mind?
Today I am responding via my six Reader Response Questions to a 2014 New Yorker article by Michael Kinsley, “Have You Lost Your Mind?” Click here to read the background of
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Exercise – Just Read It!
I’m not going to write much about today’s NY Times article about Parkinson’s disease and exercise. Just read it!
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Run For Your Lives!
First off, notice how the Nike swoosh on my T-shirt echoes, in a way, the curved blade on the Grim Reaper’s scythe. I wonder if I’m the first person to
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Running: Cognitive Benefits, Too
The NY Times recently published a pair of articles (click! & click!) that promote running as not only a great aerobic exercise but also a way to strengthen your brain
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Quelling Tremors One Hand at a Time
The BBC has a terrific video about a computer wizard in London who developed hardware and software that quell Parkinson tremors in the hand of Young Onset Parkie Emma Lawton.
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