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The Economist: “How personalised music can be used in health care”

May 17, 2017 By Parkinson's Community Help

20170513_BKP515Using personalised music in therapy is cheap and can reap great rewards.

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Washington Post: “In their last days together, a mother and son clung to what bonded them together”

May 14, 2017 By Parkinson's Community Help

mother'sdayilloStory about mother with Parkinson’s and her son.

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LA Times: Does Parkinson’s disease begin in the gut? New research suggests it does

April 27, 2017 By Parkinson's Community Help

1024x576They 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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Scientific American: “Parkinson’s Disease at 200”

April 17, 2017 By Parkinson's Community Help

CAB5E25C-FEEA-4115-852F834BECB59AA9Todd Sherer, from the Michael J. Fox Foundation, authored a blog post on the Scientific American website in April.  He writes:  “Two centuries after its discovery, it’s still incurable—but research is accelerating, with major help from citizen scientists in the patient community.”

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STAT News: Before you send your spit to 23andMe, what you need to know

April 8, 2017 By Parkinson's Community Help

DNA_spins-1024x576Here’s a very helpful article from yesterday’s STAT News about what 23andMe’s genetic reports can and cannot show…. Full Story>

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