All across America this week, Congressional representatives and senators held town hall meetings with their constituents. Many Republican legislators faced hundreds of protesters who demanded that the Affordable Care Act […]
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According to the below news clip, firefighters are at an increased risk for developing Parkinson’s disease, as their job puts them in close contact with toxic fumes. Massachusetts is putting
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The New York Times reports today that elderly people who live in nursing homes or assisted living centers are using marijuana daily to cope with pain and other physical aggravations.
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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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The New York Times has an op-ed piece by Cameron Zeigler, a former social worker with Young Onset PD. Cameron was diagnosed at the age of 44, and eventually had to
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Sweden, since the 1980s, has run “patient hotels,” which serve as a hospital/hotel combo for people who need some kind of monitoring by a doctor, but don’t really need to stay
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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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Actually, I hope this is just the start of a conversation about what it’s like being LGBTQ and having Parkinson’s disease. Full disclosure: I’m gay, and I was diagnosed with
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American baseball great Dave Parker was, like me, diagnosed with PD four years ago. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette just posted an article about how he’s dealing with PD at the four-year mark,
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On a recent sunny fall day I was walking the streets of Manhattan. My PD drugs were “on,” and I felt glorious and, well, glittery. I remembered a phrase from Edwin
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