Beefcake above, comedy below. In a recent Daily Mirror article, British comic and fellow Parkie Billy Connolly jokes how he learned empirically that people with Parkinson’s shouldn’t take a shower […]
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Stem cells are back in the news again, and here’s what research scientists are trying to do on the Parkinson’s front in San Diego. Basically, they are taking cell samples from the
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Miracles Why, who makes much of a miracle? As to me I know of nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight over
The NY Times just wrote about Billy Kennedy, basketball coach for Texas A&M. The article begins with Billy learning he has Young Onset Parkinson’s, then describes his initial foray into the
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Japanese researchers halt Parkinson’s disease in mice. Click!
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I just watched the final episode of “Downton Abbey.” It was chock-a-block with happy endings (“more happy endings than a gay massage parlor,” quips the Dowager Countess in the director’s cut),
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Here’s a two-for-one: 1. The Huffington Post just published an article titled “Why I Refuse to Give In to Parkinson’s Disease,” written by a fellow Parkie named Steve Alten. In the
DBS (Deep Brain Stimulation) is a startling surgical procedure for Parkies whereby doctors drill holes in your skull and insert two wires that will stimulate the part of your brain that’s
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Frequent Parking Suns viewer and comment writer Bev emailed me that she took a Rock Steady boxing class for people with Parkinson’s and felt great afterwards. She wrote: I went
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