Word: parkinsonism
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...next day Dr. Obukhov again called me in and said that Andrei was on the brink of death, that his extrasystole was very bad, that he was suffering from grave atherosclerosis in the brain vessels and that he either had Parkinson's disease or symptoms of it. And that I should not worry him. I yelled, saying that as doctors they should understand that a man in that state of health cannot be kept isolated for four months from the only available person dear to him; I also accused them of having brought on his worsened condition by giving...
...underground labs do not have the most stringent quality controls. Four years ago a botched batch of a designer drug called MPTP circulated through Northern California and left scores suffering from a frightening side effect: Parkinson's disease. If drugs like MPTP become as popular as cocaine, warns Ian Irwin, a San Jose neurotoxologist, "you would have the makings of a real national disaster. It would make Chernobyl look minor...
...most impressive of these semichanges is the alteration of a first name to an initial. This is often thought to be a means of suppressing some supposedly sissified first name. (Would Parkinson's law ever have been discovered if C. Northcote Parkinson had remained Cyril N. Parkinson?) More commonly, such changes suppress a plain name. (Could Bill Harriman have served Presidents as grandly as W. Averell Harriman did? Would the FBI have achieved the same renown under Jack Hoover as it did under J. Edgar Hoover...
...career took off: THIS DARING CAMERA GIRL SCALES SKYSCRAPERS FOR ART. In the early 1940s, Hollywood issued a number of films based roughly on Bourke-White's character or exploits and starring the likes of Tallulah Bankhead, Claudette Colbert and Ann Sheridan. When, in the 1950s, she contracted Parkinson's disease and underwent an experimental operation to arrest her deterioration, she shared her experience with LIFE readers and inspired a TV drama called The Margaret Bourke-White Story...
...scientists quickly turned to the task. For years research on Parkinson's disease has been limited by the lack of an animal model on which to test new drugs and treatments. Would MPTP induce Parkinson's in animals? The answer, NIMH Researchers Sanford Markey and R. Stanley Burns soon discovered, was no in rats but yes in monkeys. Says Markey: "That was probably the biggest breakthrough in this story...