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I'm Terry Graydon.

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Parkinson's disease is a progressive debilitating movement disorder.

Can something as simple as exercise control symptoms?

This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.

Medications can be helpful, especially in the early stages of Parkinson's, but the benefits eventually fade.

Intense exercise has been shown to control symptoms at least as well as medicine without the side effects.

The researcher behind this discovery tells us how it works.

High intensity, interval training can also be beneficial for the rest of us. You're never too old

or out of shape to benefit from some kind of exercise. Coming up on the Pupils Pharmacy, the research

for peddling for Parkinson's and how we can all benefit from physical activity. First, this news.

In the People's Pharmacy, the People's news. In the people's pharmacy health headlines, how effective are flu shots?

The influenza virus changes from year to year, and consequently, the vaccine must change as well

to keep up.

This means that experts need to study vaccination effectiveness

every year to be able to tell how well their vaccination programs are working. An analysis of the

results from the 2015-2016 flu season has just been published in the New England Journal of

Medicine. The researchers used data from the

influenza vaccine effectiveness network, which kept records on children older than six months

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