A few weeks ago Bonnie Cunningham, Patient Services Director of the NPF,
sent a message saying:
>Hot off the presses, our new medication book titled "Parkinson's Disease:
Medications" has arrived. It is an 80 page book that goes over all the
medications, plus a chapter on Alternative Medicines. If anyone would like
a copy (it's free), please call 1-800-327-4545 and tell the receptionist
you'd like a copy of the book.
>
I reviewed Medications for our local SG newsletter as folows:
MEDICATIONS
The National Parkinson Foundation, Inc. has just published a first-rate
eighty page pamphlet entitled Parkinson's Disease: Medications written by
Jean.P. Hubble and Richard C. Berchou. Its nine chapters deal not only with
the medications used in the treatment of PD but with adjunctive therapy,
depression, anxiety, dementia, sleep disorders, ancillary health problems,
and a discussion of alternative medicine and herbal supplements. In a
brief appendix Medications contains a glossary, a discussion of
contraindicated drugs, and a formula for making liquid Sinemet.
The entire contents of this publication is based on the predication that the
person with Parkinson's must become knowledgeable about the disease and its
treatment. Commenting on the patient's responsibility, Dr. William C.
Koller in the Foreword to Medications writes "While the physician can advise
and recommend prudent medication regimes, it is ultimately the patient who
on a daily basis must make the decisions to increase a medication to achieve
more benefit or decrease a medication if side effects are intolerable."
Medications is free for the asking. Phone the National Parkinson Foundation
at 1-800- 327-4545 and ask for a copy of this informative and well-written
booklet.
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Sid Roberts 69/4 <[log in to unmask] > Youngstown, Ohio
