Word: parkinsonism
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...that The Bourne Ultimatum seems empty and ill-used, like an interrogation room after a waterboarding. Greengrass cuts each action scene into agitated bits; but he can't let fast enough alone. Could he please explain why, in the chat scenes, the camera is afflicted with Parkinson's? The film frame trembles, obscures the speaker with the listener's shoulder, annoys viewers and distracts them from the content of the scene. It surely interrupted my enjoyment of the movie; for a minute I wanted to give it a good spanking...
...Currently, there are two drugs approved to treat RLS. One of the drugs, Requip, made $500 million last year for the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline, which first marketed the drug in 1997 for Parkinson's disease. Today, the company markets Requip - some say aggressively - as a treatment for RLS. It is now prescribed more often to treat that condition than Parkinson's, Rye says. Experts who challenge the validity of RLS say that such drug-company advertising campaigns over-medicalize phantom conditions and drive people to take drugs they don't need...
...would allow federal funds, the financial lifeblood of scientists and laboratories, to flow to embryonic stem cell research. The bill's proponents claim that these by-products of in-vitro fertilization may be able to help cure a wide host of diseases, including juvenile diabetes, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's (recall the hubbub over the stem cell ads that aired during last year's Senate race in Missouri starring Michael J. Fox, who suffers from Parkinson's). Those opposed, including many on the right, regard it as the destruction of early human life. Others see it as a potential gateway...
...couples with excess embryos to donate them for stem cell research. Given the high cost of each IVF cycle, however, more and more couples expressed a desire to keep their stem cells from themselves, to use whenever stem cell therapies became a reality for treating diseases from diabetes to Parkinson...
This box, sealed with ribbon and wax, contains medical records and witness testimony that details how a French nun was cured of Parkinson's disease after she prayed to Pope John Paul...