Word: parkinsonism
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Wick added that further studies into the exact mechanism may explain why L-dopa is also successful in controlling Parkinson's Disease...
DIED. Stanley ("Bucky") Harris, 81, member of baseball's Hall of Fame who managed five major league teams during his 29-year career; of Parkinson's disease; in Bethesda, Md. After playing second base for the Washington Senators, Harris became the "boy manager" of the team at age 27 and led them to the 1924 World Series title. After that the gentlemanly pilot had a flurry of failures, but in 1947 he guided the Yankees to the world championship...
Died. Dr. George Constantin Cotzias, 58, neurologist who developed the widely used L-dopa drug treatment for Parkinson's disease; of lung cancer; in Manhattan. Greek-born Cotzias left his Nazi-occupied homeland in 1941 and came to the U.S. for medical training. In 1967 he found that the drug Levodihydroxyphenylalanine successfully countered the major chemical deficiency in the brains of Parkinson victims; the discovery led him to an understanding of the biochemical abnormalities underlying the disease. When he learned he had cancer in 1973, Cotzias expanded his research to that field as well...
Died. Father James G. Keller, 76, Roman Catholic missionary priest who founded the Christophers, a loose-knit ecumenical movement devoted to individual action and the credo that it is "better to light one candle than to curse the darkness"; of complications arising from Parkinson's disease; in Manhattan. Keller preached his gospel in more than a dozen books, a TV show and a movie, You Can Change the World...
...plagued the Fore tribe of New Guinea. The agent responsible: a previously unknown kind of cell invader, dubbed a "slow virus"-in this case, transmitted, during cannibalistic rites. Such viruses incubate in the body for years, may be linked to other severe diseases of the nervous system, such as Parkinson's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease), and perhaps play a role in aging...