Word: parkinsonism
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Exactly how deeply the Rotarians felt became clear last June, when Franklin received an urgent phone call from Toronto. Despite his Parkinson's and other ailments, Billy had rarely missed a crusade. But on the day before he was scheduled to address 50,000 people in the Toronto SkyDome, he collapsed with a bleeding colon. From his hospital bed, Billy had an aide call Franklin with a plea to take over, and the son jumped on a plane, flew to Toronto and began frenzied preparation. Only the following morning did he learn that the crusade's local organizers, reportedly after...
BOSTON: A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine has found that people with parkinsonism -- symptoms associated with Parkinson's disease -- have twice the risk of death of those without the condition. Additionally, the authors conclude that nearly one in five people are afflicted by the condition. Previously, researchers believed the symptoms of parkinsonism, which include tremors, rigid movements, extreme slowness and shuffling gait, were benign manifestations of aging. But after studying 467 elderly Bostonians over nine years, scientists concluded the 159 with parkinsonism had a higher mortality rate. TIME's Janice Horowitz says the study points...
AILING. JANET RENO, 57, U.S. Attorney General; from Parkinson's disease; in Washington. The no-frills lawwoman revealed that the progressive muscle affliction was diagnosed last month, but stressed that the condition is being controlled by medication--and underscored the point by extending a rock-steady hand...
DIED. GEORGE KIRBY, 71, comedian-impressionist; of Parkinson's disease; in Las Vegas. One of the first African-American stand-ups to play Vegas clubs, Kirby was for years a fixture on TV variety and talk shows. His repertoire of 100 voices spanned races and sexes, including dead-on renditions of jazz divas Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald...
Sylvia Stanton Sellarole, 61, of Redlands, California, was not so lucky. For five years the registered nurse had suffered the uncontrollable tremor and halting steps characteristic of Parkinson's disease. But her hopes soared in 1993 when she heard Dr. Robert Iacono of the Loma Linda University Medical Center speak at a medical conference about practically curing the degenerative nerve disease in hundreds of patients. Iacono's unusual solution involved surgically destroying a tiny portion of the brain that some doctors think becomes overactive during the course of the illness. At first the operation on Sellarole seemed successful. Then...