Slowing Down for PD

Today we’ll start off the blog quoting Klaas Moes, of Strathroy, Ontario, Canada:

"With Parkinson's, your general feeling is bad, but things come and go. One hour I'd be shaking and then the next hour it would be gone again."

Mr. Moes has been living with Parkinson’s for twenty years; and, because of the degenerative nature of the disease, he needs to slow down. For twelve years he has been gathering pledges for the SuperWalk 2006, a fundraiser in his hometown that helps to fund Parkinson’s research. However, he is wise enough to know that this year he must do less. To read more about Mr. Moes, click here. Proceed Cautiously with Health Care Professionals that Claim Stem Cell Therapies If you have been considering traveling to a foreign country for stem cell treatment, we encourage you to think about this news story from the UK. Fetal stem cells are such a new science that it does not seem likely that any lab, clinic or health care institution would have been able to create a treatment that is legitimate, yet. We would love for this opinion to be proven wrong. _{Technorati links: Parkinson/'s disease,Parkinson's, Parkinson/'s, parkinson's}