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Steering your own medical care takes self-assessment and self-training. It starts with learning how to communicate with your doctor.
Yahoo! News | Posted 09.16.2009 | Living
People whose jobs bring them in regular contact with pesticides may be at increased risk for Parkinson's disease, a U.S. study finds....
Posted 09.07.2009 | New York
Muhammad Ali made a guest appearance at the Yankees-Red Sox game Thursday night to much fanfare among the crowd. According to the New York Daily News...
Katie Hood | Posted 08.22.2009 | Business
The health care system is one of the most complex and least understood systems in this country, and one that the interest of lobbyists has driven its evolution.
thedailygreen.com | Posted 07.23.2009 | Green
Yet another study has linked pesticide exposure to Parkinson's disease, according to Reuters, and this study, published in Annals of Neurology seems t...
Kate Michelman | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics
It was a crisp and brilliant autumn day last October when the medical and financial crises with which my family had successfully, if barely, coped for seven years became a catastrophe.
Kathleen Reardon | Posted 05.01.2009 | Living
Parkinson's is often described with words such as "devastating," "disfiguring," "degenerative," "desperate" and "incurable." It's now time to stop referring to it in these ways.
Sky News | Posted 04.26.2009 | World
The team at Aston University created tiny bundles of cells which act like a mini nervous system. They believe it could help find a cure for degenerati...
Jill Stein and Ted Schettler | Posted 04.25.2009 | Living
New medical research reveals good news for those who thought that neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's are genetically determined and can not be avoided.
Kathleen Reardon | Posted 03.19.2009 | Politics
Medical costs must come down. But as we've learned with business bailouts, better to do it right early on, to anticipate abuse, than to be digging our way out of a mess for years to come.
Kathleen Reardon | Posted 03.06.2009 | Living
Tonight on Frontline or online you can watch Dave Iverson's "My Father, My Brother and Me." If you have Parkinson's disease or know someone who does, I recommend it highly.
Lou Weisbach | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics
There must be a place in the NIH where the discovery of knowledge is focused on preventing or curing the diseases of our loved ones.
AP | CARLA K. JOHNSON | Posted 02.07.2009 | Living
CHICAGO — Parkinson's sufferers who had electrodes implanted in their brains improved substantially more than those who took only medicine, acco...
People | Posted 12.29.2008 | Entertainment
Ten years after shocking the world with the announcement that he has Parkinson's, Michael J. Fox is aggressively fighting the disease - and says he st...
ET | Posted 12.07.2008 | Entertainment
ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT sat down with Michael J. Fox last week on the set of "Rescue Me" in New York City, for a new interviewed that aired November 5th...
Ryan Reynolds | Posted 11.09.2008 | Entertainment
It's my hope the story of my father combined with my own goal of becoming the first person in history to sob uncontrollably for 26.2 miles straight, may inspire you to give something too.
Vickie Karp | Posted 10.27.2008 | Style
Music had this amazing ability to allow [transfixed patients] to move and speak and think. It was very startling. I've seen it numerous times since, but it still astounds me.
Katie Hood | Posted 10.25.2008 | Living
Sergey Brin's disclosure last week that he carries a genetic mutation increasing his risk for Parkinson's managed to put the genetics-driven revolution in health care back into the headlines.
NY Times | Posted 10.20.2008 | Business
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Sergey Brin, a Google co-founder, said Thursday that he has a gene mutation that increases his likelihood of contracting Park...
abcnews.com | Allyson T. Collins | Posted 07.24.2008 | Living
Many patients who take the Parkinson's drug Mirapex say they were not fully aware of its rare but strange side effects -- which include a desire to ga...
Anne Wojcicki and Linda Avey | Posted 07.03.2008 | Living
Though research is moving forward, new approaches are needed if we are to achieve real breakthroughs that will make a big difference for patients any time soon.
Paul Abrams | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics
FoxNews commentator Morton Kondracke was initially a John McCain enthusiast. Writing in the book about his wife's Parkinson's disease, Saving Milly*,...
Dr. Belisa Vranich | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
Q: My father-in-law is in his mid-70s but seems to be having problems with his memory, the whole family has noticed it but no one wants to say anythin...
Forbes | Kerry A. Golan | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Andy Grove noticed an occasional tremor in the index finger of his right hand. it was 1999, when Grove was 63 and had just stepped down as the chief e...
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Kathleen Reardon | Posted 11.02.2009 | Living