Tag: Parkinson’s Disease
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About 78 per cent of elderly Nigerians at risk of Parkinson disease, says Expert
A physiotherapist, Prof. Matthew Olaogun, has said that at least 78 per cent of Nigerians of 60 years and above are at the mercy of Parkinson disease.
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Help!!! Dublin-based Nigerian, Mefor, seeks €40,000 for treatment of Parkinson’s disease
A Nigerian woman, Yvonne Agba-Mefor based in Dublin, Ireland, has called on Nigerians at home and abroad to come to her aid as she seeks financial assistance for the medical treatment of her husband, Paul Mefor, who has been suffering from Parkinson’s disease. TheNewsguru.com (TNG) gathered that for the past 10 years, Yvonne’s husband has…
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Scientists invent new wirelessly controlled device to treat Parkinson’s disease
Scientists from University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) on the western U.S. coast have invented a wirelessly controlled neuro-stimulator that could provide fine-tuned treatments to patients with diseases like epilepsy and Parkinson. This is contained in a study that was published in Nature Biomedical Engineering in the U.S. UC Berkeley researchers worked out a wireless…