Category: Parkinson’s News

A prestigious award for volunteerism has been presented to the founder of an organization helping people with Parkinson’s disease enjoy the great outdoors through hiking. Bill Meyer is the recipient of the 2023 AARP Washington Andrus Award for Community Service. He was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2009. …

A recent study showed that changing up therapies in the later stages of Parkinson’s disease improved motor symptoms and other subjective symptoms. As a result, doctors should consider advanced therapy combinations — simultaneous or sequential — if initial therapy has adverse effects or efficacy declines. The findings were published recently in Neurology.

Rock Steady Boxing sessions focus on boxing drills, strength training and cardio exercises designed to reduce the progression of Parkinson’s Disease.

A Bradford man is taking on a mammoth challenge to help raise funds for a cause close to his heart.

I RECEIVED AN EMAIL from a blog reader saying something like this: “Please do yourself a favor and correct your misspellings.”  Regardless of the reader’s intentions, I suspect she didn’t recognize the difficulty of writing a blog while tremoring from Parkinson’s disease, a diagnosis I received seven years ago at the age of 52.  Within […]

A long-serving leader of an Indian Wells nonprofit to step down at the end of December.

KEIGHLEY Parkinson’s support group could fold unless new volunteers are found, bosses have warned.

An experimental blood test measuring levels of alpha-synuclein, a Parkinson’s biomarker, may help detect the disease before tell-tale symptoms appear.

Recent studies have highlighted the significant role of gut dysbiosis in the development and progression of Parkinson’s disease, making this research by MAHE even more crucial

The Rehabilitation Center of Penn Highlands Healthcare in Huntingdon now joins the health system’s Rehabilitation Centers in Clearfield and St.