After 17 years of serving his country, Mark Kelm is now providing a different type of service: He’s advocating for others who, like him, are living with Parkinson’s disease (PD).
Kelm, who lives in a small Minnesota town with his wife of 23 years and three children, was just 38 years old when he was diagnosed with PD, a nervous system disorder that causes tremors, stiffness, loss of balance and other movement issues.
He credits his military background for
A mother and daughter from the Caribbean and an 80-year-old Olympian with Parkinson’s are set to become Virgin Galactic’s first space tourism crew.
The Richard Branson-founded company announced the trio Monday, who will soar to the final frontier on August 10.
Among the members are Keisha Schahaff and her daughter Anastatia Mayers, who won their seats in a 2021 contest and Jon Goodwin, who participated in the 1972 Munich Games.
The launch is planned for August 10 at Virgin Galactic’s
In the fall of 2018, the pianist Nicolas Hodges noticed his body shaking. He brought it up at a routine doctor’s appointment in Tübingen, Germany, where he lives. The doctor said it was probably stress, but recommended that he make an appointment with a neurologist.
Hodges didn’t make that appointment right away. But then, in January 2019, the shaking caused him to play a wrong note during a performance.
“It became instantly clear that I had to find out what
Botox injections in neck muscles can ease anxiety in Parkinson’s patients, a study has found.
The jabs, more commonly known as a cosmetic treatment
A University of Connecticut scientist has reportedly identified a key mechanism in Parkinson’s disease research.
UConn Health, a branch of the university, said Tuesday that assistant professor of neuroscience Yulan Xiong and her team had discovered a regulator compound which holds the potential to treat the brain disorder.
The work, identifying a regulator of a gene called LRRK2, was published in a recent study in The EMBO Journal. The gene, a section of DNA, is considered the basic unit of
The discovery of a “pause button” in the brains of mice could help scientists better understand Parkinson’s disease — and perhaps even develop new therapies.
Slow or arrested movement, the neuroscientists from Denmark explained, is one of the primary symptoms of the progressive and eventually debilitating neurological condition.
The team found that they could cause mice to freeze in place by stimulating certain nerve cells in a region of the brain known as the pedunculopontine nucleus, of “PPN”, for short.
Michael J. Fox has been a household name for decades, and he’s earned that status by working relentlessly for most of his life.
His career experienced a massive shift as the Parkinson’s disease he was diagnosed with at 29 began to make acting difficult.
In 2000, he founded the Michael J. Fox Foundation in hopes of funding research that would help find a cure.
Now, Fox is more of an activist than an actor, but both of his career paths
Michael J. Fox, his wife Tracy Pollan and their kids stepped on the red carpet at A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Cure Parkinson’s in New York on Saturday.
The 61-year-old actor donned a purple and red button-down shirt under a black blazer. He added a pair of dark jeans to the ensemble.
He stood in a pair of black, red and white sneakers as he wrapped an arm around his loving wife, Tracy Pollan.
Family affair: Michael
Ozzy wird sich umso mehr freuen, wieder auf den Beinen zu sein, da er bald wieder Großvater wird.
Seine Tochter Kelly, 37, gab kürzlich bekannt, dass sie mit ihrem ersten Kind mit Slipknot-Star Sid Wilson schwanger ist.
Als Kelly die Neuigkeiten auf Instagram enthüllte und sagte, sie sei „überglücklich“, nahm ihre begeisterte Mutter die Kommentare auf.
“Mein [heart emoji] könnte nicht voller sein. Ich bin so aufgeregt, die schöne Reise, die vor mir liegt, mit dir @kellyosbourne zu teilen“, schrieb
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Von Claudia Piñeiro
Übersetzt von Frances Riddle
Am 24. Januar 2021 wurde in Argentinien zum ersten Mal seit 1886 Abtreibung legal. Dieser bahnbrechende Wandel war das Ergebnis jahrzehntelanger engagierter Basisaktionen von Aktivisten aus verschiedenen Lebensbereichen, darunter die renommierte Schriftstellerin Claudia Piñeiro.
Piñeiro wird von einigen als “Hitchcock of the River Plate” gepriesen und ist eine bekannte Kriminalschriftstellerin in ihrer Heimat Argentinien und auf der ganzen Welt. Doch obwohl ihre Bücher weltweite Bestseller sind und vier ihrer Romane in
