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...your ears and into batteries that are implanted in your chest. Then current from the batteries zaps some bad signals in your brain so that good signals can be heard by the rest of your body. When it works, as it generally does, it greatly reduces the symptoms of Parkinson's disease. I wrote in Time 41/2 years ago about having PD and adopting a strategy of denial: pretending to myself and others that I didn't have it. By now my symptoms are past the point where dishonesty and self-deception are a useful approach. But maybe this operation...
...your ears and into batteries that are implanted in your chest. Then current from the batteries zaps some bad signals in your brain so that good signals can be heard by the rest of your body. When it works, as it generally does, it greatly reduces the symptoms of Parkinson's disease. I wrote in TIME 41/2 years ago about having PD and adopting a strategy of denial: pretending to myself and others that I didn't have it. By now my symptoms are past the point where dishonesty and self-deception are a useful approach. But maybe this operation...
Check out time.com for more on deep-brain stimulation and for Michael Kinsley's 2001 TIME article about his initial struggle with Parkinson's disease
...marrow contain these stem cell-- mimicking cells, which could become a reservoir of replacement cells for treating diseases such as leukemias, stroke and some cancers. "Brain stem-cells can make almost all cell types in the brain, and that may be all we need if we want to treat Parkinson's disease or ALS," says Dr. Arnold Kriegstein, who directs the University of California at San Francisco's Institute for Regeneration Medicine. "Embryonic stem cells might not be necessary in those cases." When it comes to treating heart disease, "if you could find a progenitor cell in the adult heart...
...Following the set canonical process allows an official and thorough accounting of John Paul's "entire life...all his deeds." There are a multitude of cases of supposed miracles attributed to the late pope, but officials are zeroing in on the healing of a French nun suffering from Parkinson's disease, the same progressive nervous system ailment that had stricken John Paul. Doctors will have to confirm that there is no medical explanation for the nun's recovery. "The miracle is the confirmation," explained Father Gumpel. "In all human undertakings there can be mistakes, so we need divine confirmation...