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by Janet Kidd Stewart The journey via Chicago Tribune November 1, 2009 Q : If you are on Social Security disability, can you get any kind of health insurance discount? I'm 56, have had Parkinson's disease for 10 years and have worked full time for 36 years. My husband, 60, had a heart transplant...
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August 26, 2009 via Science Daily Researchers have developed a new technology that helps Parkinson's patients overcome the tendency to speak too quietly by playing a recording of ambient sound, which resembles the noisy chatter of a restaurant full of patrons. "People with Parkinson's disease...
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via The New York Times By ANDREW POLLACK Sergey Brin , the billionaire co-founder of Google , says he plans to contribute money and his DNA to a large study intended to reveal the genetic underpinnings of Parkinson's disease. The study, ... announced Thursday [March 12, 2009], will be conducted by...
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03-16-2009
Filed under: Filed under: patients “self-organize” into an online community, Parkinson's Disease, other traits, health risks, large study, Parkinson’s Institute and Clinical Center, personal genomics service, DNA, ancestry, Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, Google co-founder, 23andMe, genome-wide association studies, make research more efficient
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On February 3, 2009, at 9:00 p.m., EST, PBS will air the FRONTLINE documentary, ""My Father, My Brother, and Me," which tells the story of correspondent Dave Iverson, whose father and brother have Parkinson's disease, and who, in 2001, received a Parkinson's diagnosis, himself...
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01-24-2009
Filed under: Filed under: closed captioning, WGBH, Dave Iverson, PBS, treatments, Parkinson's Disease, genetic mutations, FRONTLINE, exercise, Independent Television Service (ITVS), video description, fetal stem cell research
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