Word: parkinsonism
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...promising that it needs to be pursued regardless. The potential medical advantages are enormous: by cloning a patient?s own cells to create stem cells, then coaxing those stem cells to become new pancreatic, brain, spinal cord or heart tissue, for example, it?s conceivable that a victim of Parkinson?s, Alzheimer?s, diabetes, paralysis or heart disease could shore up damaged organs with new, healthy and-most important-rejection-proof replacements. (These are embryonic stem cells, which can turn into any tissue, not the less versatile stem cells that are already being used in various procedures, including an experimental...
...course, after the cancer screening, there's always a heart attack to worry about. And Parkinson's. And Alzheimer's. And then all the ails of the rest of the world. Who needs my help more--the New Orleanians or the Kashmiris? Oppressed Christians in China or battered women in Minnesota? MS or MD? If I give to AIDS patients, am I leaving breast-cancer sufferers, starving children and land-mine victims...
DIED. JAMES INGO FREED, 75, soft-spoken New York architect who catapulted to international fame as the much hailed designer of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, above, in Washington; of complications of Parkinson's disease; in New York City. Freed, an émigré from Nazi Germany who became the longtime business partner of I.M. Pei, designed, among other things, Manhattan's sprawling Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and Washington's Ronald Reagan Building. Of the Holocaust Museum's hexagonal, skylighted Hall of Remembrance, he said, "Light is the only thing I know that heals. People at the camps said...
There's still no cure for Parkinson's disease, of course, so anything that prevents or delays its onset would be a welcome development. Harvard researchers found that vigorous regular exercise early in adult life cut in half a man's risk of developing Parkinson's later on. Physical activity was also associated with a decline in Parkinson's in women, although the drop was not statistically significant. Still, there are plenty of other reasons--from helping the heart to improving one's mood--to get moving...
...average only 17 human eggs to grow each of the cell lines (in contrast to the 242 eggs they needed to make a single stem-cell line just 15 months earlier). Research like this may someday lead to treatments for a wide range of disorders, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases and spinal-cord injuries...