Word: parkinsonism
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...unable to move around. The company is also looking at sensors that in the next couple of years might be placed in canes or shoes to inform a doctor about the minute changes in a senior's stride that may be an early indication of neurological problems such as Parkinson...
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When Rush Limbaugh accused Michael J. Fox of going off his Parkinson's meds to make a political ad in favor of embryonic-stem-cell research--and against Republican candidates who oppose it--the insult backfired. A pro-stem-cell law passed in Missouri, and Democrat Claire McCaskill was elected to the Senate in a tight contest. But it isn't just celebrity endorsements that make people favor embryonic cells as a possible treatment for Parkinson's (and a long list of other diseases): clinical results are starting to come in too, including those from a 10-year study...
Celebs aren't always helpful. Actor and Parkinson's sufferer Michael J. Fox stumped for pro-stem-cell-research initiatives and candidates--and endured Rush Limbaugh's taunts. To what end? Missouri voters backed a ballot measure for research, but postelection polls showed that Fox's ads hurt his candidate Claire McCaskill more than they helped...
...make your characters consistent. Life doesn't. A janitor abruptly decides he will become a writer, while his glamorous wife, selling fox capes in a big hotel, suddenly, while still young, develops Parkinson's. Munro's fiction seems uncannily true to the world because destiny plays havoc with characters' circumstances even when they don't do the same themselves...