http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspxYour source for the latest news at NWPF.(c) 2013 Northwest Parkinson's Foundation. All rights reserved.Thanks to the likes of Michael J Fox, Muhammad Ali and more recently, Bob Hoskins, many more people have now heard of Parkinson's. Yet despite this Parkinson's remains a condition that few understand. Aside from a tremor, which most people associate with Parkinson's, it is a hugely debilitating condition that can eventually affect all aspects of daily life – with seemingly simple tasks like getting out of bed becoming increasingly difficult. Anxiety, pain, problems with movement, sleep and speech are all part of daily life for the 127,000 people living with Parkinson's in the UK. Although the impact of Parkinson's is all too clear, what causes this progressive condition to develop is much less so. New research published today however, takes us one step closer to the holy grail of Parkinson's research – being able to slow down, or even stop, the condition in its tracks.http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspx?Item=42745/20/2013 12:00:00 AMScientists have finally recovered stem cells from cloned human embryos, a longstanding goal that could lead to new treatments for such illnesses as Parkinson's disease and diabetes. A prominent expert called the work a landmark, but noted that a different, simpler technique now under development may prove more useful. Stem cells can turn into any cell of the body, so scientists are interested in using them to create tissue for treating disease. Transplanting brain tissue might treat Parkinson's disorder, for example, and pancreatic tissue might be used for diabetes.http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspx?Item=42735/18/2013 12:00:00 AMA University of Nebraska Medical Center research team has found a way to monitor brain injuries that occur in Parkinson's disease providing clinicians a rare glimpse into the disease process. By using magnetoencephalography (MEG) imaging Tony Wilson, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the UNMC Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience and lead study investigator, was able to pinpoint the regions of the brain affected by this debilitating disease.http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspx?Item=42725/16/2013 12:00:00 AMScientists have discovered the three-dimensional structure of the protein Parkin, a finding which may provide new ways to develop drugs to slow the progression of Parkinson's disease. Researchers from McGill University worked in collaboration with teams led by Dr Edward A Fon at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital - The Neuro, and Dr Kalle Gehring in the Department of Biochemistry at the Faculty of Medicine.http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspx?Item=42715/11/2013 12:00:00 AMA drug that is currently used to treat leukemia has been found to slow the production of toxic proteins in the brain. These proteins have been linked to Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and other forms of dementia.http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspx?Item=42705/11/2013 12:00:00 AMStumped for years by a natural filter in the body that allows few substances, including lifesaving drugs, to enter the brain through the bloodstream, physicians who treat neurological diseases may soon have a new pathway to the organ via a technique developed by a physicist and an immunologist working together at Florida International University’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine.http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspx?Item=42695/11/2013 12:00:00 AMIt had been a little more than four months since completing my second space shuttle mission, STS-59, on the shuttle Endeavour. I was finishing my annual flight physical at the Johnson Space Center Flight Medicine Clinic. The words from the flight surgeon were as expected: I was in great condition with nothing of note. Then I asked the doctor to look at my right shoulder because my racquetball game was suffering.http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspx?Item=42685/3/2013 12:00:00 AMResearchers hope a procedure using patients' own stem cells will cure Parkinson's Disease, or at least eliminate symptoms for decades.http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspx?Item=42675/3/2013 12:00:00 AMEating vegetables that naturally contain nicotine, such as peppers and tomatoes, may reduce your risk of developing Parkinson's disease, according to a new study.http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspx?Item=42665/9/2013 12:00:00 AMMoods, not motions, may be the biggest challenge for patients with Parkinson's disease.http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspx?Item=42654/30/2013 12:00:00 AMBy working with mouse and fruit fly hearts, researchers at Washington University (WUSTL) School of Medicine, St. Louis identified a key protein that has a connection with Parkinson’s disease and heart failure.http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspx?Item=42644/30/2013 12:00:00 AMWhen former NBA star basketball player Brian Grant was diagnosed with Parkinson's, he worked hard to hide the disease from public view. "I was too scared to go on interviews for anchor jobs or jobs where I could maybe be a commentator or radio host," he recalls.http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspx?Item=42634/30/2013 12:00:00 AMHeavy use of the world's most popular herbicide, Roundup, could be linked to a range of health problems and diseases, including Parkinson's, infertility and cancers, according to a new study.http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspx?Item=42624/26/2013 12:00:00 AMAs her mother and father edged toward dementia, Nancy D’Auria kept a piece of paper in her wallet listing their medications.http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspx?Item=42614/23/2013 12:00:00 AMIt was supposed to be a short stay. In 2006, Roger Anderson was to undergo surgery to relieve a painfully compressed spinal disk. His wife, Karen, figured the staff at the hospital, in Portland, Ore., would understand how to care for someone with Parkinson’s disease.http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspx?Item=42604/23/2013 12:00:00 AMParkinson's disease sufferers are being subjected to "intolerable levels of prejudice", a charity has warned, after it was found that two in five of those afflicted with the disease have experienced discrimination because of their symptoms.http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspx?Item=42594/23/2013 12:00:00 AMParkinson's disease patients, including Toowoomba man Clark Hoey, often experience what doctors describe as "freezing of gait", literally stopping in their tracks for seconds at a time.http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspx?Item=42584/23/2013 12:00:00 AMEunice Linh You, a Grade 11 student at Laval Liberty High School, won third prize and $3,000 in a national science competition for her work in designing stem cell treatments for patients with Parkinson’s disease.http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspx?Item=42574/11/2013 12:00:00 AMThe visible brain has arrived: the consistency of Jell-O, as transparent and colorful as a child’s model, but vastly more useful.http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspx?Item=42564/11/2013 12:00:00 AMWhen Mary Yeaman was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2006, she could barely bring herself to leave her house. Her muscles were weak, and she was having a hard time coping.http://www.nwpf.org/News.aspx?Item=42554/11/2013 12:00:00 AM