Interesting Links for 20-10-2015

[andrewducker]

• Crossing a wheelchair with a segway
  • (tags: disabilities transport segway )
• The real reason germs spread in the winter (humidity)
  • (tags: flu disease Epidemiology winter )
• Parkinson's patients walk and talk again after receiving cancer drug in trial
  • This is the cancer drug that my lovely wife Julie is on. Glad to see it's got the possibility of helping many others too!
  • (tags: cancer brain healthcare research viaJulie )
• Canadian Liberals sweep to power by raising taxes, legalising marijuana and deficits to invest in infrastructure
  • (tags: liberal Canada politics )

Comments

[marahmarie]

That is, uh...amazing. I had a grandmother who suffered many years with and eventually died of Parkinson's and I always wished she hadn't. Even then (I was 18 by the time she began getting very sick) I thought it was ridiculous. Anything I find ridiculous on an instinctual level I always figure is because subconsciously I think there's got to be some kind of help or cure for it...at least this drug could have made her life immeasurably better if she'd had it available back then (but this was back in the late 1980s...nothing was available. They'd talk about rest and diet and how at her age and her hand and voice would shake on the phone so badly and how I hated her having to endure that).

[andrewducker]

Yeah, I really hope that this can help prevent people being in a similar situation in the future.

[marahmarie]

I meant to say, I'm happy for you and for Julie that she has access to this, and that I'm very glad it's helping her...she was extremely lucky to get in on it! (But I so wish I could transport it back in time to my grandmother, it about kills me to think about it.)