01/05/2009 Save the Date: FRONTLINE to Air Parkinson's Special February 3, 2009
"My Father, My Brother and Me," television and radio producer Dave Iverson's film on Parkinson's disease (featuring an interview with Michael J. Fox), will air on FRONTLINE on February 3, 2009. (Check local listings for air time on your local PBS station.)
01/05/2009 Biogen Idec Takes Aim at New Parkinson’s Paradigm
If Biogen Idec’s drug candidate for Parkinson's lives up to its promise, it could be one of the early movers in a new class of medicines that minimize secondary symptoms and keep standard therapy from wearing off over time.
01/03/2009 Tennis Balls for Tremor Treatment
Doctors in the United Kingdom are using tennis balls to treat people with Parkinson's disease. The balls are part of a series of exercises to help reduce stiffness in the hands and aid tremor reduction.
01/02/2009 Pathway that Regulates Survival Factor Implicated in Parkinson’s
A group of researchers say that they have uncovered a pathway that modulates cell loss and survival in Parkinson’s. They found that an accumulation of alpha-synuclein interferes with cells’ recycling of a protein called MEF2D, leading to cell death.
01/02/2009 Rhode Island Senator Pell, Creator of Pell Grants, Dies at 90
Claiborne Pell, who was the force behind a grant program that has helped tens of millions of Americans attend college, died Thursday after a long battle with Parkinson's disease. He was 90.
