In this March 22nd blog post on Parkinson’s Women, Darcy Blake compares her mother’s PD symptoms and treatment with her PD symptoms and treatment…. Full Story>
MedPage Today: “In major study, mortality among patients with PD was “only moderately increased compared with the general population”
Excerpt: “This is a very well done epidemiological study,” David Standaert, MD, PhD, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, told MedPage Today in an email. The finding that the risk of death from PD has not changed in 30 years in Minnesota’s Olmsted County is “worth noting,” said Standaert. “It suggests that while newer treatments may be improving the quality of life for PD patients, they are not making them live longer.”The Economist: “How personalised music can be used in health care”
Using personalised music in therapy is cheap and can reap great rewards.
Washington Post: “In their last days together, a mother and son clung to what bonded them together”
Story about mother with Parkinson’s and her son.
LA Times: Does Parkinson’s disease begin in the gut? New research suggests it does
They say that “what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.” But this is definitely not true of the vagus nerve, which wanders from the stomach to the brain, passing through the heart, esophagus and lungs along the way.
A new study offers fresh support for an intriguing theory about the vagus nerve’s role in Parkinson’s disease, a neurological disorder that causes tremors, gait difficulties and sometimes dementia in roughly 1 million Americans and as many as 10 million people worldwide…. Full Story>
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