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FDA Panel Recommends Approval of Parkinson’s Psychosis Drug
March 29, 2016
… New Assessment Method Nuplazid (the compound pimavanserin) from Acadia Pharmaceuticals works on the serotonin system, … meeting in Silver Spring, Maryland on Nuplazid, hearing from researchers and the public on the study results and the …
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My Journey with DBS: Wired up, Tuned in and Turned on
September 8, 2016
… said, "You're not going to do this one!" I quickly learned from a hysterical nurse that this was spoken by an observing … chest. A second incision was made in my head and the wires from my electrodes were strung through my neck to connect to …
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Siblings Run Marathon in Memory of Mom
May 4, 2015
… Merrie, who lived with Parkinson’s. Below are excerpts from Meredith’s post-race reflection: After 8 months of … talked about Mom, and I celebrated my imminent retirement from marathons. Making the final turn, we recalled the story …
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Tour de Fox Journal: The Road Gets Rough
July 2, 2015
… like this, it’s not necessarily the exhaustion you feel from one particularly difficult day, it’s the mounting … I pedaled more than 13,000 vertical feet as we traveled from South Carolina’s highest peak, through North Carolina, …
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The Search for Operating Instructions: Running to Raise Volunteers
June 27, 2012
… to run that year. A member of MJFF’s Patient Council from Menlo Park, California, Dave is a longtime writer and … in to surprise him? This year, they’re not cheering Dave on from the sidelines; they’re running with him as members of …
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Canadian Mennonite Family Stands Up For Parkinson’s Research Helping to Link New Gene to PD
July 26, 2012
… a church hall on the outskirts of Saskatoon. They’d come from several provinces across Canada. I talked to them about … major process for trafficking membrane-associated proteins from one part of the cell to another. If this recycling …