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Changing Gears....

Focusonacure
  • By Focusonacure · Posted December 18, 2008
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  • For those of you that have read my blog regarding my DBS experience I appreciate your involvement, comments and good wishes. This week I went for a "tune up" one of several I will have over the next year ...

Why are we here?

Brian
  • By Brian · New reply December 16, 2008
  • Journal · 136 replies
  • When we started this community, each of us faced important health issues in our lives. Some of us have family members with medical conditions. Many of us have medical conditions of our own. All of us ...

My story - in a clinical trial

trial-participation
  • By trial-participation · New reply October 23, 2008
  • Journal · 1 reply
  • After being diagnosed with Parkinson's, I immediately set out to learn everything I could about this disease. The words "progressive" and "incurable" appeared in everything I read, but I kept telling ...

Conference in Seattle

plan4life
  • By plan4life · Posted October 21, 2008
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  • November 1st is the HOPE conference in Seattle from the Northwest Parkinson Foundation. I'm on schedule to present as part of the pdplan4life team. If you are there - I hope to meet you ...

symbol for parkinson's awareness

plan4life
  • By plan4life · New reply October 20, 2008
  • Discussion in In the news · 1 reply
  • There is a new symbol for PD awareness. It was designed by a young onset who lines in Washington state - Karen painter. I hope Inspire will use this symbol for this group. http://www.pdplan4life.com/tulip-1inch.j ...

info about clinical trials

trial-participation
  • By trial-participation · Posted October 19, 2008
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  • www.clinicaltrials.gov is the website that lists all clinical trials. You can search by disease, location, drug name, etc. for Parkinson's disease: www.pdtrials.org lists most ongoing trials Fewer than ...

Symbol for Parkinson's awareness

plan4life
  • By plan4life · Posted October 16, 2008
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • http://www.pdtulip.com http://www.pdstamp.org ...

Participating in clinical trials

plan4life
  • By plan4life · Posted October 16, 2008
  • Discussion in Living with Parkinson's · 0 replies
  • Did you know that fewer than 1% of people with PD participate in clinical trials? This is a huge problem, because it slows the time to getting better treatments - or even the ever-elusive cure. www.pdtrials.org ...

PD Patients in India

mgujral
  • By mgujral · Posted June 11, 2008
  • Discussion in Living with Parkinson's · 0 replies
  • This is Manmohini Gujral, Female, Age 52.5 years . I had been facing a slowdown of my muscles for some time. I was recently informed that I am in the initial stages of Parkinson's (Specifically Multiple ...

Sometimes we make mistakes

Brian
  • By Brian · New reply May 27, 2008
  • Journal · 35 replies
  • Two months ago, when we launched Inspire 2.0, we added a group called 'Team Inspire'. We did this with the best intentions: we wanted the group to be a space for new members to get oriented, ask questions ...

Welcome from TeamInspire!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · New reply April 7, 2008
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  • Hello, old friends and new. Today is a big day for us! We have made numerous improvements to your community, most that were suggestions from you. As you can see the site is very different then before ...

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