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California's Telephone Access Program
Do you have difficulty using the phone? Do you, or does anyone you know, have difficulty using the telephone? Perhaps you have trouble with one of the...
March 29, 2013
GeeWhiz® For Male Urinary Incontinence
GEEWHIZ® FOR MALE URINARY INCONTINENCE “Gadget guy” and inventor Paul Dwork, a pharmacist in Camarillo, California created the GeeWhiz® Male External Condom Catheter for urine...
March 29, 2013
Treatment Offers Help
Could Parkinson’s disease actually be an advanced stage of TMJD (Temporomandibular Jaw Disorder)? A couple of years ago PRO held the “Quality of Life...
March 29, 2013
Paid In Full With One Glass of Milk
One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his way through school, found he had only one...
March 29, 2013
Bringing Medical Advances to those in Need
Have you heard of Prozac®, Cymbalta®, Aricept®, Imitrex® or Paxel®? Maybe you take one of them. These are just a few medications that California...
March 29, 2013
The New Commission on Long Term Care
March 1, 2013 — In the wake of the January 2013 repeal of the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act, Congress legislated...
March 29, 2013
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT MAY 2013
With the Ides of March behind us we look forward to PARKINSON’S AWARENESS MONTH, April. For those in the trenches of Parkinson’s, every day is...
March 4, 2013
ROAD TO THE CURE UPDATE MARCH 2013
The momentum in the SDBC’s Road to the Cure continues to accelerate. The interest of world renowned scientists and perhaps the world’s largest Parkinson’s...
March 4, 2013
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT MARCH 2013
February was another incredible month. In addition to it being my first month of being back to long distance driving since back surgery in...
March 4, 2013
Is It Gerd Or Is It Thrush?
So often misdiagnosed and unattended to – so often given a prescription for Nexium or something similar – so often, so uncomfortable for the...
March 4, 2013
Symptoms And Vision Problems Found In Neurological Disorders
For 20 years optometric clinicians and researchers have been aware of the power of prisms and lenses resolving many medical and neurological issues including...
March 4, 2013
Living With Parkinson's and Looking For Relief
It was Tuesday, May 9th 2006 when I heard the words “You have Parkinson Disease” (PD) with my husband by my side. My first...
February 1, 2013
ROAD TO THE CURE UPDATE FEBRUARY 2013
We are even more encouraged by the activities at the SDBC with the production buildup for attacking the Parkinson’s protein of LRRK2. In the...
February 1, 2013
What is This TMJ Stuff?
Recently many academies and institutes have been covering TMJ and TMD work. The National Institutes of Health discusses TMJ DISORDERS, produced and distributed by...
February 1, 2013
Coffee and the Parkinson's Patient
While drinking coffee with caffeine each day does not appear to reduce sleepiness among people with Parkinson’s disease, it may have a benefit in...
