Playing table tennis may ‘slow down Parkinson’s disease because it sharpens patients’ reflexes and stimulates their brain’

Five hours' of playing time a week reduced tremors, limb rigidity and balanceScientists say sport could be used as a cheap and relatively safe physical therapyParkinson's blights lives of more…

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Alzheimer’s hope as researchers find nine genes that may PROTECT against the memory-robbing disorder

Researchers looked at DNA of 10,000 people, half of whom had Alzheimer'sThose without condition had genes which stop a protein from functioningThe proteins, called tyrosine phosphatases, are involved in cell…

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