Word: parkinsonism
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...patients found to have Parkinson's disease, vitamin E may hold special promise. The nutrient seems to delay the appearance of tremors, rigidity and loss of balance, thus postponing the need for therapy with dopamine. The vitamin also appears to alleviate some of the unpleasant side effects of antipsychotic drugs, such as twitchy hands, face and feet...
...question of ethics stood between renowned cancer researcher Elliott Osserman and his last remaining hope. For nine years, Parkinson's disease had been stealing his abilities -- to write, to walk and then to talk. Still, his mind continued exploring an important advance in cancer therapy, and with help from colleagues, he continued treating patients. Osserman's last hope was an experimental therapy in which the cells malfunctioning in his brain would be replaced by an injection of vigorous developing cells -- cells from a fetus that a woman had chosen to abort...
...humans was halted while a presidential panel weighed the therapy's ethical implications. In December 1988, after waiting several months, Yale decided to go ahead with Osserman's operation based on the panel's recommendation that the moratorium be lifted. Nearly all of the handful of transplants performed for Parkinson's have produced dramatic results, but for Osserman it was too late: he died within months. Says Yale team leader Eugene Redmond: "He may have been the first victim of the moratorium...
Another test is due shortly. In a few weeks the Senate will affirm the House's decision to revoke the Federal Government's ban on fetal-tissue research. Unlike the freedom to paint what one chooses, this issue has severe consequences for millions of Americans afflicted with diseases like Parkinson's and juvenile diabetes. Because the tissue required to aid these sufferers comes from aborted fetuses, the Bush Administration has prevented federal support of the necessary research. For the conservatives who control U.S. health policy, the legal status of abortion is immaterial. "Yes, abortion is still legal," acknowledges James Mason...
...Bowing to the demands of pro-lifers, the Bush Administration continued a ban on federal funding for fetal-cell transplants, despite the fact that the use of such tissue has shown promising results in treating Parkinson's disease and other disorders. Frustrated U.S. researchers watched helplessly as their European counterparts moved ahead on medical applications of fetal tissue...