One man is not letting a degenerative disease hold him back.
John Cullen, 61, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s and is using weightlifting to stop the disease from controlling his life.
“It’s a heavy weight to bear, and it’s a heavy weight to continue to battle against,” he said.
He started lifting that heavy weight physically. At first, he trained himself, but without someone to push him, “I was still having a lot of Parkinson’s symptoms – the shuffling, the bent over, that kind of stuff.”
Then, he found Vincent Lamphere, a personal trainer at Iron DNA Fitness.
“We’re doing powerlifting. We’re doing central nervous system overloading training and stimulation,” Lamphere said.
Even small bills for health insurance may cause healthy low-income people to drop coverage University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation | May 10, 2021
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Twenty dollars a month might not seem like a lot to pay for health insurance. But for people getting by on $15,000 a year, it’s enough to make some drop their coverage – especially if they’re healthy, a new study of Medicaid expansion participants in Michigan finds.
That could keep them from getting preventive or timely care, and could leave their insurance company with a sicker pool of patients than before, say the researchers from the University of Michigan and University of Illinois Chicago. They have published their findings as a working paper through the National Bureau of Economic Research, ahead of publication in the American Journal of Health Economics.
Study: Even a small amount for health insurance could make healthy low-income people to drop coverage
Twenty dollars a month might not seem like a lot to pay for health insurance. But for people getting by on $15,000 a year, it s enough to make some drop their coverage - especially if they re healthy, a new study of Medicaid expansion participants in Michigan finds.
That could keep them from getting preventive or timely care, and could leave their insurance company with a sicker pool of patients than before, say the researchers from the University of Michigan and University of Illinois Chicago. They have published their findings as a working paper through the National Bureau of Economic Research, ahead of publication in the American Journal of Health Economics.
Thompson Center architect Helmut Jahn killed in Campton Hills bike accident Alexis McAdams
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Helmut Jahn, a prominent German architect who designed an Illinois state government building and worked on the design of the FBI headquarters in Washington, was killed when two vehicles struck the bicycle he was riding outside Chicago.
Jahn, 81, was struck Saturday afternoon while riding north on a village street in Campton Hills, about 55 miles west of Chicago. Jahn failed to stop at a stop sign at an intersection and was struck by the two vehicles, headed in opposite directions, Campton Hills Police Chief Steven Miller said in a news release.
Famed German architect Helmut Jahn killed in Illinois bike accident
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German architect Helmut Jahn killed in bike accident outside Chicago
Helmut Jahn, a prominent German architect who designed an Illinois state government building and worked on the design of the FBI headquarters in Washington, was killed when two vehicles struck the bicycle he was riding outside Chicago.
CHICAGO - Helmut Jahn, a prominent German architect who designed an Illinois state government building and worked on the design of the FBI headquarters in Washington, was killed when two vehicles struck the bicycle he was riding outside Chicago.
Jahn, 81, was struck Saturday afternoon while riding north on a village street in Campton Hills, about 55 miles (90 kilometers) west of Chicago. Jahn failed to stop at a stop sign at an intersection and was struck by the two vehicles, headed in opposite directions, Campton Hills Police Chief Steven Miller said in a news release.