This summer, my 86-year-old neighbor Warren Gilman found out that he has Parkinson’s disease. Parkinson’s disease is a disorder of the nervous system that affects how a person moves. The most common first sign of Parkinson’s is a tremor, but Warren’s hands are as steady as they ever were. His sharp-eyed wife Emma noticed some other […]
A leading Parkinson’s disease specialist at Mayo Clinic says there is increasing evidence that ongoing vigorous exercise may slow the progression of Parkinson’s disease. If you’re not familiar with Parkinson’s disease, it’s a chronic and progressive movement disorder that affects about one million people in this country. According to the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation, the cause is […]
For more than 20 years, Diane was the health reporter on WCSH 6. Before that, a radiation therapist at Maine Medical Center and after, Manager of Marketing/PR at Mercy Hospital. Now she writes the award-winning blog Catching Health with Diane Atwood.
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