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Why We Advocate: Keeping Critical Parkinson’s Programs Funded
June 7, 2024
… be held for agencies like the DoD and the Department of Health and Human Services in June 2024. This program has … in the number of men and women diagnosed and variability in health care practices among patients. In late 2023, the …
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Advocates Share Their Experiences on Capitol Hill
March 31, 2017
… In our case, Steve focused on National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding; Kae discussed caregiving (RAISE Family … can take to help people with PD (and their families) stay healthy, bridging the gap until researchers can find a cure. … PD did not want to become burdens on our families and the health care system; we are working hard to keep ourselves …
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2025 Colorado Base Camp Trek
… PARTICIPANT WAIVER I am solely responsible for my own health and safety. I represent and warrant that I am …
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The Michael J. Fox Foundation Expands Landmark Parkinson’s Research Study toward Better Treatments and Prevention
April 29, 2025
… 18 or older in the United States can contribute data on health and wellbeing through the newly relaunched myPPMI … Capture Complements In-Clinic Research to Elucidate Brain Health and Disease PPMI has also updated its online … $2.5 billion in research to date, the Foundation has fundamentally altered the trajectory of progress toward a cure. …
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The Edmond J. Safra Fellowship in Movement Disorders
… University of Texas at Austin where she majored in Public Health. She then went onto the University of Texas Medical … deep phenotyping, genotype-phenotype correlations and experimental approaches towards precision medicine in monogenic … His research looks to understand genetic and environmental risk factors for Parkinson’s as well as the influence …
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Racial Bias and the Parkinson’s Journey: Reflections from the Staff, Advisors and Community of The Michael J. Fox Foundation
August 2, 2021
… take to counter diversity and bias in medical research and health care, I am aided by holding the perspectives of both … example of a well-documented historic inequity — women’s health is misunderstood or is diminished both in terms of … women — and especially women of color — go through in the health care system. I had to fight hard for my voice to be …