SO YOU'VE BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH PARKINSON'S DISEASE! WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
Diagnosis (from the Oxford Dictionary online): 1. the identification of the nature of an illness or other problem by examination of...
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pdfree
- Sep 7
- 7 min
RESEARCH OUTCOMES
Why Do We Do Research? Why do we do or support medical and health research? What is the objective of spending large amounts of money,...
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pdfree
- Jul 26
- 8 min
FOUR PILLARS
Autonomy, Justice, Beneficence, Non-Maleficence In today’s Western societies, it is assumed that all medical strategies, treatment and...
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pdfree
- Jun 17
- 4 min
POLYPHARMACY. WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?
Polypharmacy may not be a word you use or hear every day, but everybody who regularly takes more than one pharmaceutical medicine is a...
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pdfree
- Jun 3
- 4 min
IF STRESS IS THE PROBLEM, WHAT CAUSES STRESS?
There is no doubt that stress responses in our body can cause or exacerbate symptoms of illness. There is also little doubt that over...
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pdfree
- May 5
- 3 min
A DISAPPOINTING APRIL
April was Parkinson’s Awareness Month (PAM) across the world. As I interact with many Parkinson’s groups, I waited, with baited breathe,...
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pdfree
- Apr 5
- 3 min
PATHWAYS TO PARKINSON’S & WORLD PARKINSON’S DAY
April 2022 is Parkinson’s Awareness Month and Monday April 11th has been selected as World Parkinson’s Day. Once again, I have received a...
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pdfree
- Mar 10
- 3 min
START WITH THE CAUSES
Parkinson’s disease is considered by most medical practitioners to be “idiopathic” – that is of no known cause. Despite well over a...
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pdfree
- Jan 12
- 3 min
PINK1
Researchers at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research (WEHI) have been able to show the function of protein, PINK1, in...
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pdfree
- Nov 4, 2021
- 2 min
THE TREE
We had a wonderful Eucalyptus nicholii tree in our front garden. It was over 20 metres high (60 feet), spread its boughs nearly as wide,...
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pdfree
- Sep 28, 2021
- 2 min
WHAT READERS SAY ABOUT “RETHINKING PARKINSON’S DISEASE”.
I’ve been recommending the book to others too. I really think it’s such a significant piece of work with the potential to help so many...
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pdfree
- Sep 10, 2021
- 2 min
WHO ARE WE?
Who are we really? Are we People with Parkinson’s (PwP)? Are we a group of symptoms that may be uncomfortable, embarrassing or just...
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pdfree
- Aug 20, 2021
- 3 min
LIFESTYLE EPISODE 2
HOW WE CHOOSE TO LIVE Western society offers an almost infinite number of distractions to draw us away from our focus on self-development...
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pdfree
- Jun 30, 2021
- 4 min
LIFESTYLE - Episode 1
We hear many practitioners and presenters talking about lifestyle and what changes we should make to improve our health. When we think of...
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pdfree
- Jun 29, 2021
- 1 min
NEW VERSIONS
EXCITING NEWS: Rethinking Parkinson's Disease is now available in FOUR new versions for those who may have difficulty in reading our...
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pdfree
- Jun 19, 2021
- 2 min
STORMS
We all experience storms during our life. Sometimes these are literal storms such as we experienced just a few days ago. Extreme winds...
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pdfree
- May 26, 2021
- 2 min
HOPE IS
Hope is necessary for our health. Without it, we become moribund, unmotivated, stagnant; in fact, hopeless. I have been accused of...
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pdfree
- May 12, 2021
- 2 min
A LITTLE BOY’S WISDOM
I spent two days with my nearly-five-year-old grandson, Henry. A wonderful experience as meeting has been so difficult over the past...
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pdfree
- Apr 22, 2021
- 5 min
PARKINSON'S DISEASE RESEARCH
April, Parkinson’s Awareness Month, is in its final week and I have received many emails and messages asking for donations to support...
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