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Oct. 21, 2009
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Science & Medicine
Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, more -- due to infectious proteins?
June 29, 2012
Federal scientists have narrowed the search for a gene that causes one form of Parkinson’s disease to a small segment of one human chromosome, providing the first direct evidence that a genetic alteration is capable of producing the devastating brain disorder.
Nov. 15, 1996
California
Some guests at the “Canvas of Hope” benefit for the Orange County Chapter of the American Parkinson Disease Assn. might not have recognized that the unassuming man in the Panama hat and the Hawaiian shirt was their host, Stanley Scher.
June 13, 1995
Medical researchers have transplanted brain tissue taken from a spontaneously aborted fetus into the brain of a man with Parkinson’s disease--the first reported human brain-to-brain transplant.
Jan. 7, 1988
Books
Books * In ‘Saving Milly,’ a political pundit writes about the ailment that ‘kidnapped’ his wife, and appeals for more funding for research.
July 9, 2001
Destruction of a small part of the brain called the globus pallidus is an effective treatment for patients with advanced Parkinson’s disease, Dutch researchers say.
Nov. 15, 1999
Re “Hot on Parkinson’s Trail,” Nov. 27 The Parkinson’s disease-afflicted farmer had “long suspected that [weedkillers and other toxic compounds] were somehow responsible for his disease” because he is endowed, like all of us, with sufficient common sense to know that exposure to toxic chemicals will sooner or later have detrimental health effects.
Nov. 30, 2005