Keeping the Women we Love Healthy

After hearing about all the encouraging news on the progress being made on the research and funding of Parkinson's disease, we are still left with perhaps the most important part of the equation:  The caregiver's perspective on dealing with the challenges of a patient diagnosed with the illness.  Treatment needs to be addressed from two flanks:  The clinical/patient side, and the caregiver side.  From a caregiver’s perspective, there is a pre-Parkinson’s and a post-Parkinson’s life.    A partner who is the healthy one in the marriage --that rarely takes medications, a lover of sports that makes marathon-running a second career; a lover of education with two Master’s degrees, a good dresser and more importantly, a charming and positive thinker with a great outlook of life-- can suddenly become a statistic in the number of patients diagnosed with Parkinson’s.  This is just a brief, loving summary of how Goldie Sinegal described her...

Sherrie Gould on current fundraising efforts for Stem Cell Research.  Part one of the Howell Foundation's Panel on Parkinson's Disease presented the latest research being conducted by  Jeanne F. Loring, Ph.D., Research Professor at Scripps Research Institute.   NIH funding for this kind of research has dropped by 34%.  A research program such as the one Dr. Loring is conducting has only a 1 in 10 chance of being funded by NIH.    So funding additional lines of research requires more creativity each day. Funds are currently and concurrently -- and very creatively-- being raised under the leadership of Sherrie Gould, a nurse practitioner in the Scripps Clinic Division of Neurology’s Movement Disorder Clinic and a founding member of the Parkinson’s Association’s Summit4Stem Cell (S4SC) Fundraising Group.   An active partner with Scripps, the Parkinson’s Association provides the most relevant news and resources on advances in Parkinson’s....