Word: parkinsons
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hospital last week suffering from an inflamed windpipe, spasms of the larynx and the flu, people wondered how long he would be able to continue in office. The Vatican reported that John Paul was making a good recovery, but with the 84-year-old Pontiff increasingly debilitated by Parkinson's disease, some are asking a more immediate question: Who's running the church? Despite his physical frailty, Vatican officials say John Paul is still mentally alert and capable of making the big decisions. And the Pope insists on appearing as often as possible in public. But even the most steadfast...
...took the Vatican a decade to confirm what the world had long been witnessing with its own eyes. It was in the early 1990s that Pope John Paul II first showed symptoms of Parkinson's disease, with the trembling of his hands, stiffening of facial muscles and slurring speech progressively worsening over the years. But Vatican officials confirmed the diagnosis only recently, a sign of just how sensitive - some would say hypersensitive - the Holy See is when the subject is John Paul's health...
...even if the Pope is released from the hospital in the coming days, concern over his health will inevitably multiply. No one denies that the Pope is mentally alert, and able to carry on meaningful discussions. Still the Parkinson's is progressing, not only adding a risk to any related breathing problems, but steadily stripping the Pope of his ability to preach to his followers. What were once 17-hour papal work days are now a fraction of that with the Pope confined to a wheelchair and in need of ever more rest. Talk of retirement that surfaced three years...
...hard to find much wrong with a drug that can battle fatigue and improve creativity and could even help prevent Parkinson's disease and diabetes. It's also hard to find much right with a drug that elevates blood pressure, aggravates stress, causes insomnia and leads to addiction. When both drugs are the same thing, it's hard to know what to think...
...another area of study entirely, some research suggests that caffeine may help prevent Parkinson's disease and Type 2 diabetes. Using data gathered in an 18-year health survey of 125,000 men and women, Meir Stampfer, professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, found that coffee drinkers had lower incidences of both diseases, though the benefit was a bit less pronounced for Parkinson's. He concedes that the work is preliminary, particularly in light of other studies that show caffeine worsens diabetes in people who already have it. But he is convinced that further...