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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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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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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What do you do if you fall flat on your face? You follow Nat King Cole’s advice: “Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again.” Watch: Listen:
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At the World Parkinson Congress last September, I walked in on the tail-end of an academic session that dealt with nutrition. The speaker ended with a strong pitch that we
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A friend alerted me to this article about an Italian doctor who enjoys playing Irish music and who noticed that a man with Parkinson’s seemed to lose his symptoms when
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I’ve posted a few times about the difficulties LGBTQ Parkies face, especially as they age and are in need of housing (click! click! click!). One problem, as exemplified in the case
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Last week I reviewed a host of issues concerning Parkinson’s disease and the LGBTQ community; it was a follow-up on an earlier post I wrote shortly after the World Parkinson Congress
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John L. Lehr, the chief executive officer of the Parkinson’s Foundation, recently published an article titled “Working Toward a World Without Parkinson’s Disease.” The first paragraph ends with these optimistic
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After the World Parkinson Congress last September in Portland, I posted a blog titled “Gay, with Parkinson’s. What are the Issues?” It basically elaborated on a list of issues that
Gay, with Parkinson’s. An Update. Read More »