Word: parkinsonism
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AILING. PIERRE TRUDEAU, 80, rakish, quick-witted and charismatic former Prime Minister of Canada; with an undisclosed illness; in Montreal. Trudeau, who served from 1968 until 1984 (except for nine months when he was voted out of office), suffers from Parkinson's disease, and caught pneumonia earlier this year. According to his two sons, he is "not well" and "resting comfortably with his family...
Telling evidence of global warming, right? Not necessarily, climatologists quickly pointed out. Thanks to wind and waves, without any help at all from rising temperatures, fissures often form in the polar ice, especially in the warmer summer months. "In fact," says Claire Parkinson of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, whose satellites have long kept an eye on the polar ice cap, "it happens many, many times every year." Sometimes the openings can be hundreds of miles long, explains the Jet Propulsion Lab's Ronald Kwok, another Arctic observer...
Ever since they were first isolated two years ago, embryonic stem cells have been touted as a potential medical miracle. Diabetes, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's and spinal-cord injury are among the devastating maladies that might be treated by turning these versatile cells into healthy replacements for just about any damaged tissue, from the pancreas to the brain...
...Reeve's cause now, however, is the Paralysis Foundation which has turned millions over to research that may soon help victims not just of paralysis but Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, MS, Lou Gehrig's disease and other degenerative neurological diseases. On Monday, researchers (helped with Reeve foundation and National Institutes of Health monies) announced they had developed the first successful procedure to convert cultured bone marrow stem cells exclusively into nerve cells. The research, published in the Journal of Neuroscience Research this month, could help in the treatment of everything from spinal cord injury and stroke to degenerative diseases like...
...Concern at Wednesday night's party centered around actor Michael J. Fox, who had to step down from his hit show "Spin City" to battle Parkinson's. He spent much of the event talking quietly with Reeve and other fund-raisers. Actor Michael Douglas, proud new papa of a baby boy (sporting the famous Douglas dimple), hasn't been much in evidence at the convention, preferring to stay home with actress Catherine Zeta-Jones, but he made sure he was at the party, handing out Dunhill cigars to one and all. Concerned about Fox, who appeared noticeably tired all evening...