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June 23, 2019 – Parkinson’s Weekly Update
This Week's Highlights: Is Laughter Still The Best Medicine - Carbidopa/Laughodopa Therapy; Best Blogs from World Parkinson Congress 2019; Gut bacteria ate my Parkinson's meds; magnetic button adapters; Performing DBS while you sleep (the patient that is, not the surgeon); what is the glymphatic system; somatic genetic mutations; PD Summer School; 50-state Rock Steady Boxing Tour; Ping Pong Parkinson; What's in the pipeline for PD; Hype or Hope for treatments in the news; and more ...
March 23, 2019 – Parkinson’s Weekly Update
This is a recap of the most interesting news and discussions related to Parkinson’s Disease this past week. In completely made-up financial news, button industry stocks were down sharply after the Michael J. Fox Foundation announced a button boycott, as part of new initiative to tell the world to stop making products that people with Parkinson's hate. Find out what industry is the next target in our exclusive special report. Also featured this week: "I love the smell of Parkinson's in the morning!" The woman who can smell Parkinson's is back in the news, with research study results confirming that a ...
Things we hate: buttons, shoelaces and squishy water bottles!
In financial news, button industry stocks were down sharply after the Michael J. Fox Foundation announced a boycott of all clothing with buttons, as part of new initiative to tell the world to stop making products that people with Parkinson's loathe and detest. Anticipating further boycotts, portfolio managers are telling investors to divest of shoelace stocks, and to invest heavily in protest buttons and velcro. A foundation spokesperson issued a warning of future activism: "Squishy water bottles...those ones that are impossible to open without spilling water all over yourself...which makes it look like you wet yourself...you're next! People with Parkinson's are ...