Word: parkinsonism
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There is also evidence, published in newspapers and magazines such as the New York Times, Forbes and The New Scientist, that smoking can promote concentration, relaxation and weight control as well as help prevent certain diseases, such as endometrial cancer, ulcerative colitis, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Peter Whitehouse, director of the Alzheimer's Center at the University Hospital of Cleveland, stated that there is a property in nicotine that helps to support brain cells and prevent them from dying...
Ilene Weinberg, 68, a former social worker from Newton, Massachusetts, didn't want to get a computer; her typewriter worked just fine. But two years ago, her son gave her one anyway, hoping it might help make up for the debilitating effects of her Parkinson's disease. Now she spends so much time online that she has installed another phone line. ``I feel like I'm with it,'' says Weinberg. ``I'm connecting with the present and the future...
...trembling and muscle weakness of Parkinson's disease improved in a small number of patients who received regular electrical pulses to the brain. The patients had fewer painful spasms and were better able to walk and talk after the treatments...
...Norman Parkinson: Photographs 1935-1990 (Rizzoli; $65). "I do not promote the idea that photography is an art form," said the late British fashion photographer, who attributed his success to "hobgoblins that live inside the camera." An impish lightness of being animates these superb images, all of them marked by a sure sense of the elegant line, be it the pose of a long- legged beauty or the curvaceous fuselage of a 1930s airliner...
...after he read his poem "Parkinson's Disease," the audience fell silent...