Staff and residents at Barchester’s White Lodge care home in Braydon, Swindon marked Parkinson’s Awareness Week which runs ...

The observance traces back to 1817 when James Parkinson’s Essay on the Shaking Palsy first recognized Parkinson’s as a medical condition, and his birthday on April 11th is now commemorated as ...

Symptoms of Parkinson’s date back hundreds of years, the first medical description was written by James Parkinson in 1817. Probably the two most famous cases of Parkinson’s that we know of ...

Lynne Osborne was among 20 specialists from across the UK to attend the event A celebration of more than three decades of specialist Parkinson's nurses has taken place at St James's Palace in London.

A celebration of more than three decades of specialist Parkinson's nurses has taken place at St James's Palace in London. The event was hosted by Duchess of Gloucester, who recognised 35 years of ...

(MENAFN- H+K Strategies) When the British surgeon James Parkinson first described “shaking palsy” in 1817, he did so by looking at the way patients’ bodies moved. Two centuries on ...

Back when James Parkinson first described the disorder now known as Parkinson’s disease, he noticed that severe constipation can be a prelude to the signature tremors. In the 208 years since ...

APRIL IS PARKINSON’S AWARENESS MONTH. APPROXIMATELY A MILLION PEOPLE IN THE U.S. ARE LIVING WITH THE DISEASE. NEARLY 90,000 MORE ARE DIAGNOSED EVERY YEAR. JOINING US THIS MORNING TO TALK ABOUT ...

In a post on social media, the Whitehaven Harbour Commissioners wrote: "We're lighting The Wave this evening to Make it Blue for World Parkinson’s Day. "James Parkinson’s Essay on the Shaking ...

“Parkinson’s is a man-made disease,” he says. “And the tragedy is that we’re not even trying to prevent it.” When the English surgeon James Parkinson first described the “shaking palsy” in 1817, it ...