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Donate to PRO!January 31, 2015
QUALITY OF LIFE-PALLIATIVE AND HOSPICE CARE
Palliative care is meant to make the patient more comfortable. To palliate is to make a disease or its symptoms less severe or unpleasant...
January 31, 2015
DANCING FOR THOSE WHO CANNOT
Kytti St. Amand, owner of Younger By Tonight Day Spa, is dancing for Parkinson’s Resource Organization at the 2015 Dancing with Our Stars Event. Said to be...
January 31, 2015
FDA APPROVES CARBIDOPA/LEVODOPA ER (RYTARY) IN PARKINSON’S
Many people in the Parkinson’s world are very excited by the approval of Extended Release (ER) Rytary by the FDA. The drug should be...
January 31, 2015
EXCITING OPPORTUNITY: Iron Blossam 7-Day Getaway
A special opportunity reserved just for Parkinson's Resource Organization site visitors, contributors, friends and family. Experience the Magic of Winter in this private condo. Iron Blosam...
December 31, 2014
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT JANUARY 2015
Standing in confidence and pride for all that PRO has accomplished in 2014, we look toward the New Year armed with strength, optimism and...
December 31, 2014
RECIPE FOR A HAPPY NEW YEAR
To our visitors and all those who follow Parkinson's Resource Organization, the following "recipe" is shared with a light heart and smile and wishes...
December 31, 2014
ROAD TO THE CURE UPDATE JANUARY 2015
"Patients may not care about detecting the pathogen … because they know they have the disease … and all they want is … to...
December 31, 2014
HOPE IN MOTION
Parkinson’s brings new experiences we don’t really want, decisions we’d prefer not to make, and challenges that, given the choice, we’d really rather not...
December 31, 2014
HEALTHY MAKES HAPPY: 5 NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS FOR A HEALTHIER LIFE AND A HAPPY 2015
As the calendar turns to New Year 2015, what resolutions should you make to get healthier and happier in the next 12 months? Here...
December 31, 2014
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT JANUARY 2014
Standing in confidence and pride for all that PRO has accomplished in 2014, we look toward the New Year armed with strength, optimism and...
November 30, 2014
ROAD TO THE CURE UPDATE DECEMBER 2014
The concept of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) in our bodies is very elusive to most of us. Whether we are healthy or afflicted by...
November 30, 2014
IT’S THAT GIFTING TIME OF YEAR
As the month of December is upon us, many of us get caught up with end of year planning. There are various techniques individuals...
November 30, 2014
CEREBELLAR THORACIC OUTLET SYNDROME, PARKINSON’S, AND TMJ
The findings of Fernandez Noda in his investigation of transitory decreased brain blood flow is something that everyone with Parkinson’s should read and be...
October 31, 2014
DEPRESSION AND THERAPY FOR PEOPLE WITH PARKINSON’S
A person doesn’t have to have Parkinson’s to become depressed. From a survey taken in 2005 it indicated that about 6.7 percent of U.S....
October 31, 2014
ROAD TO THE CURE UPDATE NOVEMBER 2014
Making history, the PARKINSON’S ROAD TO THE CURE continues ….. LRRK2 and the Parkinson’s Connection. Parkinson’s disease is a gradually progressing disorder of the nervous...
