Stiff Person’s Syndromeor SPS, is often misdiagnosed as Parkinson’s disease or MS. A blood test can help determine if it is SPS. The blood test will be looking at your glutamic acid decarboxylase antibodies, which will be much higher in someone with SPS. SPS affects about one in a...
Celine Dion, who on Thursday announced she's battling Stiff Person Syndrome, has been diagnosed with an incurable neurological disease so extremely rare that, according to the famed Cleveland Clinic, only about one out of every one million people get it. The Cleveland Clinic, founded in ...
How is Celine Dion being treated? Dion did not reveal the specifics of her treatment but said she has "a great team of doctors working alongside her." "I have to admit it's been a struggle," Dion said. "All I know is singing. It's what I've done all my life, and it's what...
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“Waterfalls” is not about cascading rain; it is about drug abuse and HIV, and was the first song to reference the disease in its lyrics, according to the HuffPost. TLC member Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas said the band was shocked when the hit beat out Michael Jackson to become the first...
Before he was diagnosed with the disease that confined him to a wheelchair, Hawking was a member of the Oxford rowing team. Hawking was a coxswain, the team member responsible for navigating the boat and maintaining a steady rowing pace, and biographers have posited that this role was ...
Navy medical professionals were among the first to be overwhelmed trying to fight this virus. Treatment was basically non-existent. The US Navy was forced to rely on quarantine or infectious disease protocols as the brave doctors, hospital corpsmen and nurses cared for the daily needs of the pa...
French officials have been weighing in, too: Sports minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra sort of confirmed the rumors, telling the French channel TF1 that Céline’s appearance in the capital was “not by chance.” The "My Heart Will Go On" singer will reportedly receive $2 million to sing one...