The Parkinson’s Foundation has designated the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) a Comprehensive Care Center, making it the first such center in Texas and expanding the organization’s Global Care Network. The designation heightens access to specialized multidisciplinary care…
From yoga therapy in Miami, Florida to a Ruston, Louisiana music and movement program, the Parkinson’s Foundation has awarded nearly $1 million in 2023 community grants for Parkinson’s disease programs that span 34 U.S. states and include international centers in Canada and Germany. The foundation’s community…
Note: This story was updated July 26, 2023, to correct two errors from the source material: “Parkie Pong” is available at West Hartford Senior Center’s Elmwood location, and Laini Weitz announced the program’s creation during a support group meeting. When a knee injury limited newly diagnosed Parkinson’s disease…
The Parkinson Voice Project (PVP)’s SPEAK OUT! Therapy & Research Center at Northeastern University will receive a $280,000 PVP grant for training, services, equipment, and supplies over the next five years. The four-week program, running at the university’s Speech-Language and Hearing Center for more than two years,…
Carl McLain, a grandfather and Parkinson’s disease patient, reports enjoying a much-improved quality of life since undergoing deep brain stimulation (DBS), a surgical treatment generally advised for those failing to respond to other disease therapies. McLain 77, said he began experiencing mysterious leg pain, anxiety, depression, and…
A framework set up by the Parkinson’s Foundation can help therapists and other professionals design more personalized exercise programs for people with Parkinson’s disease. The competency framework, as it is called, outlines programs, courses, and approaches that help to educate and train movement specialists, given the…
To assist Synapticure in advancing its nationwide telehealth offerings, the Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF) helped the company establish an advisory board of people with Parkinson’s disease and their care partners, and it will help to inform Synapticure’s patients of opportunities to participate in clinical research.
A grant from the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation to the Parkinson’s Foundation will expand PD GENEration genetic testing and counseling opportunities for African Americans with Parkinson’s disease in Georgia. Through a partnership with the Morehouse School of Medicine, the funding also will support efforts to boost participation…
To help offset the lack of specialty care in Parkinson’s disease, the Parkinson’s Foundation is offering providers who aren’t experts in the progressive neurodegenerative disorder access to the virtual course, “Utilizing Quality Measures to Improve Parkinson’s Care: What Every Neurologist Needs to Know.” The course, which is…
Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center are hoping to use digital tools, including the smartphone app mPower, to collect more precise and comprehensive long-term data about Parkinson’s disease. The study, called AT-HOME PD2, is supported by a $4.9-million grant from the National Institutes of Neurological…
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