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 […]
Daily Marijuana Use *May* Help Parkies Read More »
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
Coffee – Not the Parkinson’s Panacea Anymore… Read More »
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
Update on Human Stem Cells & Parkinson’s Read More »
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
Human Stem Cells Seem to Cure Parkinson’s in Monkeys Read More »
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
Review: “How Not to Die from Parkinson’s Disease” Read More »
The New York Times recently recycled an article (“Why Exercise Makes You Less Anxious“) that it had published years ago on the relationship between anxiety and exercise – specifically aerobic
Exercise and Anxiety Read More »
A just-released report from the Center for Disease Control in the USA states that there is a higher chance of dying from Parkinson’s disease (as well as ALS – Lou
White Collar Workers at Higher Risk for Parkinson’s and ALS Read More »
Paul Detlefsen, age 44, of Iselin, New Jersey, has had Young Onset Parkinson’s disease for eight years. Like a lot of us! However, he is the first person to be
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Here’s something that happened to me this week. I work in a public charter school in the Bronx, and I was in a 5th Grade science class while the children
The Perennial Closet + Yet Another Symptom Read More »
Yesterday’s BBC reported that an international research team was able to reverse Parkinson’s disease in mice (or at least greatly reduce their symptoms) by re-engineering cells already in the brain (called
Parkinson’s Possibly Cured in Mice; Humans Next in Line? Read More »