Word: parkinsons
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...leading proponents of yoga as a form of holistic therapy. At the Somerville, Mass., B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga Center she co-founded in 1985, she teaches a class for students with "specific needs." She has developed customized posture sequences for conditions ranging from arthritis to cancer to Parkinson's disease. Her students report experiencing both relief from pain and greater calm. "Some say it's the only thing that gets them through the week," says Dr. Timothy McCall, who works with Walden in her specific-needs class...
...kids' business is not child's play. "Launching a lot of different variants does not necessarily help a brand," says Nicky Parkinson, U.K. managing director of children's TV channel Nickelodeon. "The more you launch, the more you can kill it." Others say that kids see through any programming based on a slick marketing idea and not much else. "People have come to me with the bed linen designed before they've thought about the main characters," sighs Kate Fawkes, a consultant to HIT Entertainment who oversaw the development of Bob the Builder and is now working...
...Paul VI before him, explicitly forbade the Cardinals to so much as chat about the matter of the next Pontiff. Still, in the media, candidates cropped up, and lately the speculation has grown intense, fueled by John Paul's declining health--at almost 81, he shows the symptoms of Parkinson's disease--and by a flurry of Vatican activity. Last month 44 Cardinals were installed, and in May the princes of the church will again travel to Rome for a wide-ranging discussion on Catholicism in the new millennium...
...that results are in, some press accounts have breathlessly painted the episode as an unmitigated disaster. But that's not really true. Knowing that fetal cells can grow successfully in a patient's brain is a major step forward. And, says Dr. Thomas Freeman, a Parkinson's expert from the University of South Florida, "it's naive to think that you can do a medical intervention in people with end-stage disease and not have complications...
...even proponents agree that fetal cells alone won't eradicate Parkinson's--if only because there aren't nearly enough fetuses to do the job. Scientists are looking instead to stem cells, unspecialized cells that eventually turn into every tissue in the body. "That," says Dr. Gerald Fischbach, former head of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, "could be a renewable resource." Unfortunately, stem cells are most easily harvested from human embryos, and that means the controversy underlying the Parkinson's surgery isn't about to go away...