the signature of parkinson's is tremor at rest. when somebody is sitting in the same spot, that's when they start to have the tremor. as they start walking the tremor actually goes away. it's usually on one side of the body, they have rigid muss he is, they don't move as much, they speak slowly and with time there could be dementia. the diagnosis of it is very difficult. we check tore dopamine levels and they may have some proteins in their brain. those are detailed stuff they do. the treatment is obviously to give the dopamine back. now for the first time through a colon scope, they have found some proteins, but if they find them, it's a tumor marker or a screening process to find out if they are going to get parkinson's within two to five years. now what is also interesting is they went back and found the patients that have parkinson's and did a colonoscopy on them and found the same proteins in them and didn't find them in normal people or healthy ones. through the colonoscopy, we know we are getting them starting 50, maybe movi

>> parkinson's. was diagnosed 20 years ago, my doctor told me i had ten good years of work left and he was correct in the sense of my career but he was not correct in the sense of what was out there to do. >> reporter: and what he has done is truly historic. is this true, that you are the world's largest private funder of parkinson's disease research? >> people that are watching right now. >> reporter: almost 300 million. >> we want people to wake up in the morning, and know that we're working on their problem. >> reporter: debbie brooks is head of the foundation and say there are 200 trials searching for a cure, but patients don't know they are there. >> something like 45% of trials never recruit a single patient. >> reporter: 45% never recruit? >> yeah. >> reporter: so, the foub station created a new website, a kind of match.com for parkinson's patients. fox's dream? to identify the problem before symptoms. he was 29 when his little finger had a tremor. but that was too late. >> by the time inexhib

experts say a colonoscopy or it the less invasive thing can slow the progression of parkinson's.da has extended its june deadline for sunscreen manufacturers to change the labeling to better protect consumers from sunburn. last summer, the agency ordered the label's only read broad spectrum spf if they protect against both ultraviolet a and b rays. and must eliminate water perforce what proof. now they're giving them six more months to complete changes. maybe you have heard of "50 shades of grey." but have you heard of "shades of grey"? it was written by a mother in florida. our reporters spoke with that author. as you might imagine, she says this similar title says made for quite a story. >> she is used to her book being confused with the steamy " 50 shades steamygrey" series. >> i started hearing from people i have not heard from in 30 years asking me, you wrote this book? >> is she frustrated? know. she has found a silver lining. >> this gives me the opportunity to get my book out there. >> her book is inspired by teaching students at a new york city public high school. anothe

. >>> studies show more than 50,000 americans were diagnosed with parkinson's disease each year. could help improve treatment. >>> plus, not all sun screens are created equal. what you should know before going shopping for sun screen lotions. >>> doctors may soon be able to predisict how fast parkinson's disease progresses. research found that patients with two different variances of the disease had a faster dedplien motor skills. doctors can get a faster read on how different drugs will help the patient. >>> you soon be able to test yourself for hiv. a panel from the fda unanimously approved the recommendations yesterday. the panel said the test should be available over the counter. it sales the test is safe and effective and the benefits far outweigh risks. if approved, it would be the first over-the-counter test marketed for hiv or any infectious desease. >>> researchers at ucla say too much sugar is bad for the brain. the study found rats fed high fructose corn syrup had a hard time finding their way through the maize. the sweetener is found in things we love, soda, snacks an

he's raising money and awareness about parkinson's disease. mangini arrived in baltimore last night. he is running on a thousand mile marathon. >> so when we can restore hope and poem said that you know the project has changed their lives, how do you not feel that you know it's been a victory? >> seven members of mangini's family have parkinson's and now under the care of a neurologist because he's feeling early signs. the final destination for mangini will be new york. if you'd like to track that journey we have to link it to at the website. abc2news.com. >>> new research says women who used to be obese may still be considered unatrackive. even after they lost all their excess weight. a study participants were asked to read short descriptions of women who either lost 70 pounds or stayed the same weight. those who were heavier in the past were seen as less attractive than those who had always been thin. >>> if you mana today avoid catching the flu this year you may be in the clear. the centers for disease control says flu season is now over. a

kind of match.com for parkinson's patients. fox dream toyed tie the problem before symptoms.le finger had a tremor. that was too late. >> by the time i exhibited symptoms tiny symptom my pinky twitching, 80 percent of my cells were gone so the identify the disease before symptoms appear. >>reporter: yet for 2 decades he has been one of the magical people reminding us to laugh. even though he's done a regiment of pills to start moving every day. happiness is a choice. he likes to tell his 4 children that there once was a woman in a flood who gave birth in a tree. >> when somebody comes to me with a problem a lady had a baby in a tree. what do you have? >>reporter: tough warning if i wake up and feet cramped and symptomatic and i still have hard time brushing my teeth. 5 a morning like that i know it's a challenging day but it doesn't, i just reset for that. i don't i don't write up the day ahead of time because of. that you still say to the kid choose to be happy. >> choose to be happy. >> remarkable guy. talent and and so dedicate. >> back up date the weather forecast. experi

he said the war happened the way it did because of parkinson's and hitler making what he called bizarre judgments. having said that, dr. lattimer was also a ballistics expert, the first nongovernmental, nongovernmental, medical individual, allowed to view the--the photographs and the transcripts from the kennedy assassination. and this is back in the -- in the '70s, and he came out and agreed with the findings of the warren commission, that there was a single assassin. now the most interesting thing is this right here. he was a collect our of historical relics. professor warren used some nice language about what he collected and what he didn't collect. let me just go through a couple of them and then we will get into the civil war. well, the first thing was he owned lincoln's blood-stained collar from the night of the assassination which was later sold at auction. he also owned varying cyanide capsule, glass capsule that contained the cyanide when there was a suicide at nuremberg. he also owned napoleon's penis. now how did he own napoleon's penis? he owned napoleon's penis, the story g

so we will have people that specialize in parkinson's disease and huntington's disease and sam prusnerwho discovered this mechanism will all be here to describe this common theme that is emerging that pulls together all of the degenerative diseases of the brain. >> rose: thank you very much, eric, 22ed to see you again. for those who have been listening to this and those of you who would like to have more information, clearly you will see at the beginning respective institutional affiliations of the people who have been a part of here and also go to my web site and see a rebroadcast of this clearly when you have a stigma in any way attached, it is a crying out for new information, and understanding information, so that you have an awareness that, a, you are not alone and b, that you should not consider yourself so and that other people have experienced it and some sense of talking to professionals can make a real difference for you, because the really ologist at this of change is remarkable. thank you for joining us. see you next time. captioning sponsored by rose communications captio

and restored, severely disabled by parkinson's, but determined to be worthy of the honor given to him. meizell after mile in every town, every village, -- mile after mile in every town, every village, excitement has been growing since the start of lands' end. we are only seeing a tiny part of the operation. it takes more than 350 people to keep this torch rolling. the 14-b " torch convoy -- the 14-vehicle toward convoy includes many. grex we want them to have a great time. -- >> we want them to have a great time. >> a swarm of local police prevents the convoy from straying from the route. and another team is one step ahead to deal with any unforeseen problems. >> they deal with whether we can see the flame war began on. where we have lunch, where we go for a break. -- whether we can see the flame or whether we cannot. where we have lunch, where we go for a break, i could go on. >> i want my family to be there tomorrow and in the future. it is an unbelievable moment. >> as the sun began to set, 12- year-old thomas pierce, whose dad ran with his sister, cheered on with the champion, hel

americans with dementia, parkinson's, cancer, heart disease that often don't have anywhere else to go. thank god for medicaid that allows their families to ensure that their parents and grandparents with those awful conditions in their later years in life can live their lives in dignity, and the families are not ripped out of the middle class because they are having to pay everything they own and to sell their house to keep their loved one in a nursing home. we're talking about millions of our neighbors across america with disabilities such as multiple sclerosis, mental illness, many families that you all go to church with, that i go to church with, that we see in the grocery store rely on medicaid. so let's not use that term loosely and try to say that that's a handout in any way. that's something that is equal to our values as americans, to ensure that we're going to take care of our neighbors and our grandparents and grandparents no matter what life throws at them. so current federal law requires that states maintain certain stability requirements, but in this budget republicans go

i is running in a one thousand mile marathon to raise money and awareness about parkinson's disease. it hit close to home. seven of his family members have it. and so we are able to reach our goal and people said that -- just going to change your lives, how do you not feel its been a victory. >> he said he is now under the care of a doctor because he is showing early signs of the disease. the final location new york city, if you want to track his trip with have a link to his website on our website. >>> here we ask does it work? we test the as seen on tv products to see if they are worth it. >> tonight can a simple shirt keep your dog calm during a storm? we are working for you and your four legged best friends putting the thunder shirt to the test. the thunder and lightning can sometimes be to much for dogs. >> calm 99% of the time and soon as the storm starts he just goes nuts. >> reporter: making him the perfect volunteer to tryout a product that claims to be the best solution for dog stress. it's called a thunder shirt. it wasn't hard to find owners willing to test it. you met row

give us the figures up with coke butts and this in terms of stable turkey cornea such as the wolf parkinson award syndrome a kentucky close saw your extra system it's about ninety five to ninety eight percent pretty high he said with so rare with me it's worse with only fifty percent but if a patient comes early within a year after the disease has started then treatment efficiency increases to ninety percent let's take a look at some of the most up to date methods russian carried the ologists used to save people's lives here's this report from spotlight. a breakthrough in courage deal with treatment in russia the country's first ever successful implant of an article. hard last year attracted huge media attention a state of the art todo artificial heart that works for up to six years is a real hope for those waiting for a donor organ and they're receiving one in russia is problematic as the result lack of public support for donors until the general attitude changes scientists have to look for alternative solutions like this one an artificial valve made from a pig's heart invented by a russia

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remember, it's seniors in nursing homes with dementia, with parkinson's, with cancer, with heart disease. it is -- these are our disabled neighbors. a lot of children who need specialized care. these are children who have nowhere else to go. their parents are working. they probably don't have health care, but our values as americans and past congresses we've said on -- said in a bipartisan way we believe those kids should be able to see a doctor. you know what? it's smart. it's cost effective as well. also medicaid is flexible. republicans simply like to call for flexibility when their actions finally speak in the reconciliation process. flexibility to them means cut. it means fewer doctor visit for children. it means families with disabled kids or family members are going to have -- are probably going to fall out of the middle class because those medical bills are so burdensome to those families. it means those families with a parent in a nursing home now will -- without that support that medicaid provides, they are going to have trouble staying in the middle class as well. medicaid is

it may be a senior with pa parkinson's in a nursing home, or it may be a young woman who needs breast screening a mammography, to avoid a threatening health condition. the last debate we had about this health care issue is as if the people who sit around this table came from different planets. at least they come from very different life experiences. i see the people that we're talking about. i talk with them. i interact with them. i have a senior come up at a neighborhood office hours and tell me that the state medicaid program will cover only three of the five prescriptions that the doctor said were essential to their health care. we were told by our republican colleagues in response to the last motion, don't worry. it's a phony number that 400,000 people will be denied health care, because we plan to repeal all of the affordable health care act, and they wouldn't have gotten coverage anyway. what kind of a response is that? and then the suggestion of, all they're really doing is they're just kind of scrubbing it down. they are just going to eliminate the waste. they're going to elim

. >>> -- >>> range of brain diseases including alzheimer's and parkinson's could be treated by a singledrug thanks to research in britain. with brain diseases healthy proteins are needed to stop cells from dying scientists have found a way to manipulate the defense mechanism to allow production of proteins. the knowledge could be used to treat other brain diseases, including the human form of mad cow disease. >>> imaginary rule becoming legitimate debate. scientists want to know how many seconds you have before food you dropped on the ground or more likely your kids dropped, is infected by germs. the three-second rule, has long been considered an old wives tale. now researchers are putting that tale to the test. >> three second rule goes back to generations. my parents used to do that. >> if food falls on the floor for three seconds it is okay to eat. >> scientists found while some foods flop others can survive the floor. they broke them down into categories. pasta failed with bacteria clinging on within seconds too moist to stay clean. sliced ham, bacteria-free. all that salt and chemi

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i saw him introduce stevie wonder at a park parkinson's event once. they had to put the paddles on me. obama is the outlier. i'm starting to think he is this generation's george jessel who would have thought it bring back the dean martin roast. this guy is a killer. >> bill: he has timing. you know he doesn't write the stuff. he has the pros come in and write it for him. his timing is really good. >> it helps, billy, in the banquet room he has unmanned drones circling around the crowd, that helps out with the laughter question. i think it points to my theory that you can simultaneously be super charging and super inept. i like the guy. he seems like a cool guy. is he just bad at being president. and the two things can exist. can i keep those two balls in the air. this guy here. is he beautiful. is he a great speaker. let him sell sham wows. the country is going to hell in the hand basket. we don't even manufacture the hand basket anymore. >> bill: do you know what he is going to do? if he loses, barack obama if he loses, he will get into some kind of

. >> parkinson's arrives without fanfare. >> this is his journey. through the medical breakthroughs... >> stem cells have the potential to heal and cure so many. >> ...and the ethical debates. >> all of this cheapens human life and our respect for it. >> we'll just have to fight this together. >> watcfrontline. >> frontline continues online. explore our interactive map of the escalating drone war in yemen. read more about ghaith abdul-ahad's journey. >> they're shooting at the demonstrators. >> hear from experts about yemen's growing humanitarian crises. plus, go inside the interrogation room with ali soufan. >> it's about building a rapport. >> and read our extended interviews with soufan and john rizzo. and follfrontline on facebook and twitter, or at pbs.org/frontline. >> frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major funding is provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peace

. >> but you call parkinson's a gift. >> i always say it is the gift that keeps on taking. >> really fascinating guy. and we're going to see more of that interview tonight. ann, throughout your years on "dateline," the mccoy septuplets, how many times have you interviewed them? >> i think they're 13. they're actually going -- they're now 14. so, it's been a pretty interesting climb. >> they've had the most "dateline" appearances. >> i didn't know that. really? okay. >> and they are teenagers as you mentioned. which makes us all feel very old. and you got to go back and spend time with them. >> that's exactly right. >> take a look at this. >> oh, my gosh! look at you. what have you guys been eating? you are so big! okay who's got a boyfriend or a girlfriend? >> none. >> nobody. >> no. >> who'd like one? >> all the boys. >> are they turning out the way you thought they'd turn out? >> you know, i don't know how you predict kids when you see them. it's interesting that they are similar to how they seemed as babies. >> lester, what else can we expect tonight? >> by the way, they

i saw him introduce stevie wonder at a park parkinson's event once.he paddles on me. obama is the outlier. i'm starting to think he is this generation's george jessel who would have thought it bring back the dean martin roast. this guy is a killer. >> bill: he has timing. you know he doesn't write the stuff. he has the pros come in and write it for him. his timing is really good. >> it helps, billy, in the banquet room he has unmanned drones circling around the crowd, that helps out with the laughter question. i think it points to my theory that you can simultaneously be super charging and super inept. i like the guy. he seems like a cool guy. is he just bad at being president. and the two things can exist. can i keep those two balls in the air. this guy here. is he beautiful. is he a great speaker. let him sell sham wows. the country is going to hell in the hand basket. we don't even manufacture the hand basket anymore. >> bill: do you know what he is going to do? if he loses, barack obama if he loses, he will get into some kind of show biz capacity

they will live in a generation revolving the charge the autism, parkinson's and masters mental health. in the olden days when people didn't have hollow grams alt -- at home and did things manually and they'll live in a different world. i'm confident about this future for maggie and robert because i've written three novels on george washington and know what he went through for us to become a country. i've written four novels on the civil war and know what we went through as a people to preserve this country. the keiser was convinced in world war i we were a weak, happyless country and didn't matter. the germans and japanese underestimated us and thought we could never mobilize and didn't know how to fight. the soviets said they would bury us. the japanese in the 1980's were going to be the next super power until their system collapsed in 1989. currently the chinese are the latest example of somebody else imaginely will appear who is going to take on 305 million free people and somehow be more innovative, more effective, nor clever. i don't believe it. i think with every great challenge

of alzheimer's, of parkinson's. that has mastered mental-health. i think their generation will look back in the olden days when people did not have holograms at home and had to do so many things manually. they will live in a very different world. i am confident about this feature for maggie and robert because i have written three novels on at george washington, and i know what he went through. i have written four novels on the civil war. i know what we went through as a people to preserve this country. the germans and japanese, underestimated us and thought we could never mobilize and we did not know how to fight. the soviets said that they would bury us. the japanese in the 1980's were going to be the next superpower until their system collapsed in 1989. currently, the chinese are the latest example of somebody else who is magically going to appear, who will take on 305 million people and somehow be more innovative, more effective, more clever. i do not believe that. with every great challenge, americans have reinvented themselves and their countr

he is suffering, we're told, from parkinson's and he once told me on a recent occasion the mind is sharp the legs are gone. despite his frailty "hail to the chief" is being played. we're going to see the entrance of all of the presidents coming in. this is one of those moments we've seen with the book that michael duffy and nancy gibbs wrote about the presidents club. there is a special relationship. let's listen as the presidents are walking in. ♪ >> good afternoon. i'm fred ryan, chairman of the board of the white house historical association. the association is honored to be part of today's historic ceremony. >> the introduction is by fred ryan, fred ryan has long relationship in the past with the reagan library and foundation. >> good man. >> worked so closely with the reagans and the reagan centennial. now one of the big investors and owners of politico as well and he is going to introduce them. each president chooses who is going to do the portrait. we the reagan portrait, in fact, mrs. reagan did not like the first portrait presented so they -- >> had to redo it. >> some of the ot