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9 News
12-05-2025
- Health
- 9 News
New study suggests link between golf courses and devastating disease
Your web browser is no longer supported. To improve your experience update it here A new study in the US has found a potential link between golf courses and Parkinson's disease. The research, published in JAMA Network Open , found that people living within five kilometres of golf courses are more than twice as likely to develop the devastating neurological illness. Researchers suspected it was linked to pesticide use across those courses, with the toxic chemicals leaching into the drinking water. A new study has suggested a link between golf courses and Parkinson's disease. (Getty) "This case-control study found the greatest risk of (Parkinson's) within one to three miles (1.6km to 4.8km) of a golf course, and that this risk generally decreased with distance," the researchers said. "Effect sizes were largest in water service areas with a golf course in vulnerable groundwater regions." However, other Parkinson's experts quoted by the UK Science Media Centre said many other factors needed to be ruled out before the disease could be clearly linked to the pesticides. Parkinson's is a devastating illness. (Getty) Parkinson's UK research director Dr David Dexter said multiple factors of the study had not been controlled. "Firstly, Parkinson's starts in the brain 10 to 15 years before diagnosis and the study didn't only use subjects who permanently lived in the area," he said. "This would not only affect participants' exposure, but also suggests their Parkinson's could have started before they moved around a golf course." He also pointed out the study had not analysed the drinking water in the affected areas for pesticide levels. Parkinson's UK research lead Dr Katherine Fletcher said many studies had investigated a potential link to pesticides. "The results have been varied, but overall suggest that exposure to pesticides may increase the risk of the condition," she said. "However, the evidence is not strong enough to show that pesticide exposure directly causes Parkinson's." health Disease science Research USA World CONTACT US
Al Etihad
18-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Al Etihad
Robbie Williams tells fans selfies, approaches spur discomfort, panic
18 Apr 2025 16:58 London (PA Media/dpa) Robbie Williams has told fans that requests for selfies cause him "discomfort" and "panic," following several approaches on a recent "Let Me Entertain You" singer, 51, has a well-documented history of depression and has also fought drug and alcohol abuse as well suffering with agoraphobia - which he says often kept him stuck at Instagram, Williams wrote that he was sleep-deprived on a US domestic flight when he was approached by a fan who wrote a "lovely note," praising his Netflix documentary that detailed his struggles with said in the lengthy post that he told the person that taking a selfie would cause his anxiety to "spike, because then the whole cabin would start wondering" who he requests came with another person sending him a note, and one more passenger making him feel "obliged" after walking up to him and asking outright for the photo, according to Williams. He also said: "Every interaction - with strangers or even people I know well - fills me with discomfort."I mask it well. But social interaction still frightens me. So much so I didn't go out for years. "I used to find it impossible. Now I'm ... OK-ish. But still crawling inside. Every time a stranger approaches - and they are strangers - I panic." Williams said these fan interactions need a "caveat," calling this "dodgy terrain for a famous person to give context around," as he feels there is an "unspoken law: as a celebrity, you should be accessible 24/7."He added you have to "greet all strangers like you're the mayor of the best town anyone's ever visited. Make sure their wishes are met, whatever they are," but said they are "fans of fame not necessarily of [him].""Now listen - if we cross paths in the wild and you are a fan of me, I want you to tell me," Williams added."That means a lot. I'll make time. I've got gratitude for that. It warms my heart when I feel I've warmed yours."He urged fans to give celebrities the "dignity of their privacy, their wants, their needs," as he could be "on the phone with [his] mum, talking [about] her dementia" or "thinking about [his] dad's Parkinson's."Williams, who is second to The Beatles as the act with the most number one albums, having had 15 chart-topping UK records, recently had his biopic Better Man released last former Take That member is played by a CGI chimpanzee - a comment on how he feels like a "performing monkey."While speaking about his Netflix documentary "Robbie Williams" in 2023, he told the PA news agency that the film series was about taking back "power," which he said focused on his breakdown as well as his said: "The most revealing bits are the breakdown in mental health and the addictions and the agoraphobias and the body dysmorphias and the dyslexia and the dyscalculia. In November 2024, he said that he felt "remarkable" after coming out the other end of a more than decade-long struggle with his mental health.
BBC News
11-04-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Tenterden man says 'one day there will be a cure for Parkinson's'
A man from Kent who has been living with a diagnosis of Parkinson's has said he tries to stay active and positive every Harvey, from Tenterden, also said he was confident one day a cure for the condition will be Parkinson's Day is on Friday, with events organised to highlight awareness of the condition and the help Harvey says, despite occasional "dark thoughts", he always tells himself "life could be far worse". "As long as I can continue to go to jazz concerts at Ronnie Scott's, and the theatre and meet up with old mates for lunches, a positive approach and a supportive partner as I've got with my wife Helen, it is absolutely key to combating the disease," he said."Because one day there will be a cure." He said staying active has been key to his approach to Parkinson's."All the literature I read said vigorous exercise for at least two and a half hours every week could help to slow the disease's progression," he said."Every Monday I have a fitness session with an ex-army physical training instructor at the Tenterden Boxing Club, on Fridays I work with a specialist Parkinson's trainer and I go on an organised walk each Wednesday." Parkinson's is a condition in which parts of the brain become damaged over many years, affecting speech and names affected by the condition include comedian Billy Connolly, the musicians Ozzy Osbourne, Neil Diamond and Linda Rondstadt, and the actor Michael J Fox, who campaigns and fundraises in a bid to find a part of World Parkinson's Day hundreds of people around the UK will join together to sing Gloria Gaynor's disco classic I Will Survive from 13:00 BST.
