{"id":13272,"date":"2012-04-16T10:09:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T14:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=13272"},"modified":"2012-04-16T10:09:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T14:09:31","slug":"good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=13272","title":{"rendered":"Good News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 28, I will be in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"New York City\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=40.7166666667,-74.0&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=40.7166666667,-74.0 (New%20York%20City)&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" target=\"_blank\">New York City<\/a> doing the Parkinson\u2019s Unity Walk (see NYC Upcoming Event on this website for more information and enjoy the video). With this in mind, I post the following information:<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, <a href=\"http:\/\/pittsburgh.cbslocal.com\/2012\/04\/13\/new-parkinsons-disease-treatment-could-improve-lives\/\">CBS Pittsburgh<\/a>\u00a0posted a story about a new treatment for <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Parkinsons Disease\" href=\"http:\/\/www.everydayhealth.com\/parkinsons-disease\/parkinsons-disease-basics.aspx\" rel=\"everydayhealth\" target=\"_blank\">Parkinson&#8217;s Disease<\/a> being tested in Britain.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Scientists create and inject a virus into the brain. The shot jump starts the production of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Dopamine\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dopamine\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">dopamine<\/a>, which is the chemical patients need to fight Parkinson\u2019s.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Without dopamine, Parkinson\u2019s sufferers often shake and can\u2019t control their movements.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article reports that other <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Gene therapy\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gene_therapy\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">gene therapy<\/a> experiments are\u00a0taking place\u00a0in the United States. Doctors are saying that more studies are needed to confirm that\u00a0the treatment being used in Britain is safe and that it is effective long term.<\/p>\n<p>This is good news for those who are suffering from the disease.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right; border-style: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=8603c13a-daf5-4860-b5dd-cfd19aca99de\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 28, I will be in New York City doing the Parkinson\u2019s Unity Walk (see NYC Upcoming Event on this website for more information and enjoy the video). With this in mind, I post the following information: On Friday, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=13272\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2772,2771,2773,125,2090,2089],"class_list":["post-13272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dopamine","tag-gene-therapy","tag-neurological-disorders","tag-new-york-city","tag-parkinson","tag-parkinsons-disease"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13275,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13272\/revisions\/13275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}