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...precision to make big advances. Cohen's discoveries of prostate-cancer genes are one example. Similarly, the National Center for Biotechnology Information, part of NIH's National Library of Medicine, is using databases of partial gene sequences to zero in on genes that make aberrant proteins in ailments like Parkinson's disease...
DIED. MORRIS UDALL, 76, former Congressman from Arizona; of Parkinson's disease; in Washington. In his 30 years on the Hill, Udall was a tireless and effective advocate of environmental protection and campaign reform. Though his liberal politics often clashed with those of his constituents, the wry, self-deprecating Representative was singularly well respected. Of his popularity, he marveled, "I'm a one-eyed Mormon Democrat from conservative Arizona. You can't have a higher handicap than that...
...vice. On the other hand, it can take you only so far in national politics. Just ask Bob Dole, a genuinely funny man. And just ask Morris Udall, the 30-year congressman and presidential wannabe who died Sunday at the age of 76 after a long battle with Parkinson's disease. His quick, self-deprecating wit helped Udall make it through a series of disappointments while trying for higher office, including a disastrous attempt at the Democratic presidential nomination in 1976. A story Udall told for years afterward had the eager candidate walking into a New Hampshire barbershop and announcing...
...public figures suffer from the illness, including Attorney General Janet Reno, the boxer Mohammed Ali and Pope John Paul II. And in 1990, the movie "Awakenings" illustrated with striking realism the physical incapacity of patients with Parkinsonian symptoms. But for whatever reason (perhaps because the public figures stricken with Parkinson's are in the expected age bracket for the disease and have not been vocal about their health), the illness does not have a high level of public awareness...
Michael J. Fox, by speaking out about his struggle with Parkinson's and sharing his optimistic belief that he will survive to see a cure, is in a position to spread both a wider understanding of Parkinson's and a different perception of Parkinson's patients--not as victims but as people who can live productive and happy lives while hoping for a cure...