This is not an exhaustive review nor a recommendation for treatment, but a brief discussion of some of the complementary therapies that have been explored...
Although most of today's gene-therapy trials are targeted to cancer, there is renewed interest in pursuing the goal for which gene therapy was invented: the...
In the late nineteenth century, the shaking palsy (Parkinson's Disease) was a well recognized, but poorly understood, disorder of the nervous system. Most...
January 02, 2003 By NewsRx.com by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Middle-aged Americans with some forms of adiposity face an increased risk of...
Genetic and environmental factors may be linked to disease in the Navajo TUESDAY, June 18 (HealthScoutNews) -- Genetic and environmental factors may be linked...
The catch of supplements is not recommended from the start but should rather take account of the whole of the food. If a supplement however is prescribed, here...
Combination of glucides (sugars) and of proteins, which seems most effective at approximately two thirds of the patients who present fluctuations associated...
The lévodopa is absorbed at the intestinal level. The more it remains a long time in the stomach, plus its destruction is significant. To support its...
The constipation is a side effect of the disease itself, but it can also be accentuated by the catch of certain drugs. To solve the problem it is necessary: To...
One frequently notes an involuntary slimming significant and proportional to the gravity of the disease. This loss of weight is connected at the same time to...
The choice to have a child remains always a significant decision, all the more when one is reached of an evolutionary disease. Ten to twenty percent of the...
To be in the score, it is to be happy to be in life, it is to fall in love, it is to make madnesses, it is to think so that one will realize in ten or twenty...
Although Parkinson is a disease which affects mainly the mobility of the person, the general deceleration also touches the cognitive functions. The memory, the...
It is significant to note the duration of action of each tablet and to discuss it with the next visit in the doctor; To take the drug one hour before the meals...
The dyskinésies are involuntary movements which in general appear side of the body most severely touched by the Parkinson's disease, usually that where the...
At the beginning of the disease, a treatment the lévodopa is effective. The brain has then the capacity to store this substance and to transform it into...
Micrography is a disorder of the writing often present from the very start of the Parkinson's disease. It is characterized by a writing which becomes...
Swallowing consists in swallowing, i.e. to transport mouth to the stomach, food and saliva. Approximately 50 % of the people reached of the Parkinson's disease...
Many people reached of the Parkinson's disease present disorders of the word, which one calls dysarthrie. Indeed, according to the recent studies (7), at least...
In the life of any adult person, being in relation to the other, it is also to enjoy an opened out sexual life. To share one moment of intimacy thus represents...
Before engaging in a program of exercises, it is essential to make evaluate its condition by a professional of health. He will be able to thus establish a...
The Parkinson's disease often involves a very great fatigability. Several factors contribute to generate this situation. Rigidity, the slowness of the...
Dear Carolyn, I hope that this message can give you some tips to help you. Always there if you want Sincerly Tina Not to lose the control of the situation As...
-- Tina I am so glad I saved this one from you. I reread it tonight as I find my mind and body and life exactly in the position you describe. I just keep...
Young-adult Parkinson disease, which is defined as symptom onset before age 40 years, is comparatively rare. However, an older patient reporting symptom onset...
Pneumonia is inflammation or swelling in the lungs in which the air sacs fill with pus and other fluids, making it difficult for oxygen to reach the blood....