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Reports that Yasser Arafat is at death?s door are greatly exaggerated, but the Palestinian leader may be in the early stages of Parkinson?s disease (TIME Daily...
SHAKING OFF TREMORS A new implantable device delivers mild electric shocks to the brain to control the tremors of Parkinson's disease and a more benign disorder, essential tremor. Major surgery is required, so it's for severe cases only...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Food and Drug Administration has approved an a small device that may finally give the millions of Americans who suffer from Parkinson's disease and other disabilities such as essential tremor to eat a meal or write a letter. Implanted on the brain, the Active "pacemaker" helps control the shaking experienced by Parkinson's patients by sending out tiny electric shocks. In a recent study, the Activa reduced shaking so much that 58 percent of essential tremor patients tested were able to write or pour liquids without spilling. Although results were less spectacular for Parkinson's disease...
...PARKINSON'S BREAKTHROUGH For the first time, researchers have identified a gene abnormality that causes some cases of Parkinson's disease--a finding that raises real hope for new treatments...
...books are to be believed--many people who try these treatments do get better. A mainstream gynecologist may not be able to explain why raspberry and nettles could help cure endometriosis, and a traditional neurologist may be stumped at how breathing exercises could dramatically relieve the symptoms of Parkinson's disease. But the fact remains that in a number of cases these treatments appear to work. For many in mainstream medicine, of course, such a cause-and-effect disconnect sounds like nothing more than an elaborate placebo effect, a sort of self-fulfilling medical prophecy, in which the mere...