Word: parkinsonism
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...Vatican officials are growing increasingly concerned about his weakening physical condition. On a trip to Slovakia that ended a week ago, the Pope, 83, could finish no more than a few sentences of his opening remarks at the Bratislava airport. Vatican insiders say the apparent effects of Parkinson's disease have become more difficult for the Pope's doctors to control with medication. "They no longer are able to predict how he will be from one day to the next," said a longtime Vatican observer. A Roman Curia official described the Pope's daily schedule as "greatly diminished," which heightens...
...Vatican officials are growing increasingly concerned about his weakening physical condition. On a trip to Slovakia that ended a week ago, the Pope, 83, could finish no more than a few sentences of his opening remarks at the Bratislava airport. Vatican insiders say the apparent effects of Parkinson's disease have become more difficult for the Pope's doctors to control with medication. "They no longer are able to predict how he will be from one day to the next," said one longtime Vatican observer. A Roman Curia official described the Pope's daily schedule as "greatly diminished," which heightens...
...health concern. Rave Drug Retraction U.S. The debate over the safety of the drug ecstasy was reignited as scientists at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, retracted research published last year in Science magazine that suggested that just three doses of the drug could cause permanent brain damage and Parkinson's disease. The scientists said that the monkeys used in the research had been given methamphetamine - commonly known as speed - instead. MEANWHILE IN THE U.K. ... A Job with Security Britain's domestic intelligence service MI5 wants you. The normally secretive organization placed an ad in Police Review magazine for static...
...quaking, shaking symptoms of Parkinson's disease afflict 1 1/2 million Americans. It can be slowed but not cured, which makes prevention all the more appealing. A new study, released in the Archives of Neurology, suggests that regular use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen offers some protection. About 44,000 men and 99,000 women were followed for 14 and 18 years, respectively. Researchers found that the risk of developing Parkinson's was 45% lower among men and women who regularly used nonaspirin NSAIDs than among nonusers. Also last week a Parkinson's patient was treated...
...denied what everyone believed: that she had Parkinson's disease. "I inherited my shaking head from my grandfather Hepburn," she said in the 1993 documentary All About Me. "My head still shakes, but I promise you, it ain't gonna fall off." Still, the baggage of age exasperated her. "It's so endless to be old," she said in 1981. "It's too goddam bad that you're rotting away." The brilliant schoolgirl, intoxicated by life's promise and challenge, had become a sere biddy. The famous voice, now as cutting and quivery as sheet metal, might have sounded scolding...