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Speak up!
“I’m sorry. I can’t hear you.” If I had a dollar for every time I have heard those words over the last couple of years… I am gradually losing my voice. I used to tell people, with no evidence to back it up, that my chemotherapy treatment from nearly four years ago probably fried my…
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Poke me, prod me, scan me
The Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorder Center sits on a leafy side street near downtown Palo Alto in a small building that resembles a quaint cottage more than a medical office. Inside is what might be a magic bullet—the start of a phase 2 clinical trial on a drug that has shown an ability to…
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My body revolts…again
(Apologies, this is kinda long.) I first noticed something curiously wrong more than two years ago. After coming out of four months in a sling due to a broken arm, I noticed my right hand trembling when I would pick up my coffee mug. Certain other things would also provoke trembling, such as being really…