JAMES R. OESTREICH - New York Times - Just because you’re a hypochondriac, to paraphrase Joseph Heller’s wry comment on paranoia, doesn’t mean you aren’t sick. And the brilliant Canadian pianist Glenn Gould was, in a phrase uttered at a medical conference over the weekend, “a world-class hypochondriac.” He was also a perfectionist, easily frustrated.
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March 8, 2012
Researchers Identify Gene Associated with Primary Cervical Dystonia
Read more... December 23, 2011
The Globe and Mail - Adriana Barton - Matthew Sheppard can spend hours playing the video gam Minecraft, but he has trouble pouring water into a glass. Like other 13 year old boys, he loves hurtling through nature on an ATV. But when a waitress asks for his order,he blinks uncontrollably and shakes all over. Matthew has dystonia, a movement disorder that casused involuntary muscle contractions and spasms. More
Read more... October 25, 2011
By Matt Day, The Chronicle-Fran Porter came to Dunnville five years ago and always heard about the Dystonia Buskerfest which was held each year in the Sobeys foyer, but she never had the opportunity to go. More
Read more... October 11, 2011
Matt Day, The Chronicle - After years of setting up shop inside of the Dunnville Sobeys for a day of live music, Laurie Bell is giving up the annual October Buskerfest event which continually raise Read more...
June 3, 2011
By Stephen Petrick/Napanee Guide, At first they noticed his eyes blinking more. Next his facial features started to sag. In time he couldn't move without staggering. Now he slurs his words when he speaks. Deseronto couple Beth Fisher and Michael Stevens say their lives have become extraordinarily more challenging ever since Stevens began showing symptoms of Dystonia about three and a half years ago. More
May 20, 2011
MERZ Pharma Canada Inc. is pleased to announce that effective May 19th 2011, XEOMIN(R) (clostridium botulinum neurotoxin type A (150 kD), free from complexing proteins) has been listed with Limited Use Status on the Ontario Drug Benefit formulary (ODB). More
Read more... May 5, 2011
The Expositor, Brantford, Ontario - Michelle Ruby - In the late 1990s, Thomas Wade was living his dream. The boy from Burford who had played every county fair and local smoke-filled barroom, years before he could legally have a drink there, had finally hit the big time.
He was the charismatic front man of Thomas Wade and Wayward, whose 1996 eponymous debut album spawned no fewer than seven singles on the Canadian Country Music chart. (To listen to Thomas Wade's performance at the Hamilton Area Music night CLICK HERE)
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April 14, 2011
ADRIAN MORROW/The Globe and Mail, Robert Neron has been licensed to use marijuana to relieve his cervical dystonia for more than a decade.
Read more... April 14, 2011
Manhasset, NY (Vocus/PRWEB) A team of scientists at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research have figured out why some people with a gene that causes dystonia never get symptoms and others with the same mutation are disabled by the abnormal movements. More
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