Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) revealed to a local media outlet that she has a benign tremor that sometimes causes trembling in her hands, head or voice and is taking medication for the condition but said it “has absolutely no impact on my ability to do my job.” Collins, 73, shared the details about her medical […]
DALLAS – June 18, 2024 – A statistical tool designed to analyze 11 characteristics of postmortem brains reliably diagnosed a common neurodegenerative disease known as essential tremor (ET), a study led by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center and Columbia University shows. Their findings, 20 years in the making and published in the Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, […]
By Steven Bellows, MD1 and Joseph Jankovic, MD1Parkinson’s Disease Center and Movement Disorders Clinic, Department of Neurology,Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Texas (www.jankovic.org) When people come to their doctor for evaluation of a tremor, two common possible diagnoses are essential tremor and Parkinson’s disease. Essential tremor is a common condition that may start at any […]