Word: parkinsonism
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DIED. GEORGE KIRBY, 71, comedian-impressionist; of Parkinson's disease; in Las Vegas. One of the first African-American stand-ups to play Vegas clubs, Kirby was for years a fixture on TV variety and talk shows. His repertoire of 100 voices spanned races and sexes, including dead-on renditions of jazz divas Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald...
Sylvia Stanton Sellarole, 61, of Redlands, California, was not so lucky. For five years the registered nurse had suffered the uncontrollable tremor and halting steps characteristic of Parkinson's disease. But her hopes soared in 1993 when she heard Dr. Robert Iacono of the Loma Linda University Medical Center speak at a medical conference about practically curing the degenerative nerve disease in hundreds of patients. Iacono's unusual solution involved surgically destroying a tiny portion of the brain that some doctors think becomes overactive during the course of the illness. At first the operation on Sellarole seemed successful. Then...
There is also evidence, published in newspapers and magazines such as the New York Times, Forbes and The New Scientist, that smoking can promote concentration, relaxation and weight control as well as help prevent certain diseases, such as endometrial cancer, ulcerative colitis, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Peter Whitehouse, director of the Alzheimer's Center at the University Hospital of Cleveland, stated that there is a property in nicotine that helps to support brain cells and prevent them from dying...
Ilene Weinberg, 68, a former social worker from Newton, Massachusetts, didn't want to get a computer; her typewriter worked just fine. But two years ago, her son gave her one anyway, hoping it might help make up for the debilitating effects of her Parkinson's disease. Now she spends so much time online that she has installed another phone line. ``I feel like I'm with it,'' says Weinberg. ``I'm connecting with the present and the future...
...Norman Parkinson: Photographs 1935-1990 (Rizzoli; $65). "I do not promote the idea that photography is an art form," said the late British fashion photographer, who attributed his success to "hobgoblins that live inside the camera." An impish lightness of being animates these superb images, all of them marked by a sure sense of the elegant line, be it the pose of a long- legged beauty or the curvaceous fuselage of a 1930s airliner...