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April is Parkinson's Awareness Month - Watch My Father, My Brother, and Me on PBS.org
April 16, 2010As many as 1.5 million people in the United States are afflicted with Parkinson’ s Disease. And while research using stem cells shows promise and has resumed under the Obama Administration, there is still no cure. About $25 billion dollars is spent on the treatment of and care for Parkinsonian patients every year. In honor of Parkinson's Awareness Month, we…
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FRONTLINE and ITVS Explore Parkinson's Disease
January 29, 2009Next Tuesday, February 3 at 9:00 PM on PBS, FRONTLINE, in a co-production with ITVS, will present MY FATHER, MY BROTHER AND ME, a film that explores life with Parkinson’s disease. In 2004, journalist Dave Iverson received the same news that had been delivered to his father and older brother years earlier: He had Parkinson’s disease, a degenerative…