Chiropractors and Naturopaths - Are They Dangerous?

Good article on Dr Mercola's site about alternative medical practice being challenged by the AMA.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/12/30/rethinking-medical-associations-best-interests.aspx?e_cid=20111230_DNL_art_1

Stem Cells for Parkinson's

Stem Cells For Parkinson's

http://video.foxnews.com/v/1347464715001/stem-cell-transplant-offers-hope-for-autism-parkinsons/?playlist_id=87485

Innovative Viral Strategy to Treat Parkinson's Disease

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-12/rup-ins121411.php

TED TALK on Non-Invasive Surgery with Ultrasound for PD

This is an amazing talk and slide show at TED Med about a new means of treating Parkinson's disease.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/yoav_medan_ultrasound_surgery_healing_without_cuts.html 

Parkinson's and Presticides - New Research

Here's a pretty in-depth article about farming with pesticides and the effects it has on farm workers and others (such as neighbors) who are exposed to those pesticides. 

http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/201201/parkinsons-pesticides.aspx

A Vaccine for Parkinson's?

Here's a podcast about a potential vaccine for Parkinson's Disease:

http://blog.michaeljfox.org/2011/12/podcast-a-clinical-study-of-a-pd-vaccine/

Inhaled Levadopa Undergoing Trials

http://blog.michaeljfox.org/2011/11/civitas-therapeutics-announces-mjff-grant-to-study-lead-drug-candidate-for-parkinsons-disease/

Bonnie Bassler: The Secret, Social Lives of Bacteria

A very interesting TED talk about how bacteria talk to each other, and what the next wave of antibiotics might be based on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVfmUfr8VPA

TED Video about Coinfections and Antibiotics

A TED video of Bonnie Bassler's articulate explanation of why coinfections are so difficult to eradicate with antibiotics:

http://www.lymediseaseresource.com/wordpress/the-magic-key-to-destroy-virulent-bacteria-without-antibiotics/

Financial Support for Lyme Medications

TOUCHED BY LYME: A program that can help you pay for Lyme treatment. Prescription Hope offers a way for patients with financial hardship to obtain low-cost prescription medications.

Click here:

http://www.lymedisease.org/news/touchedbylyme/prescription_hope.html

Why Are Coinfections So Hard to Beat?

Very informative article as to why Lyme + co-infections are so difficult to eradicate due to bacteria's biofilm ability to "communicate" as a colony.

Biofilm Research Shows Co-Infection Challenge for Chronic Lyme Disease 
(From Jenna's Lyme Blog)

http://www.lymediseaseresource.com/wordpress/biofilm-research-shows-co-infection-challenge-for-chronic-lyme-disease/

Blood Test for Early Parkinson's Disease

UK researchers say they have developed a simple blood test to detect Parkinson's disease even at the earliest stages. The test detects a substance in the blood indicative of Parkinson's well before physical symptoms appear.

Read full story:

http://psychcentral.com/news/2011/12/01/blood-test-to-detect-early-parkinsons/32047.html