Marion Cottilard’s side-swept style at the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards

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The Saturdays unveil What About Us music video

The Saturdays have unveiled their new music video for What About Us.

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Compulsions in Parkinson’s Tied to Treatment

Jan. 8, 2013 -- Parkinson’s disease itself doesn’t seem to raise a person’s risk for compulsive addictions to things like gambling, shopping, or sex, a new study shows.

Compulsive behaviors affect about 14% of Parkinson’s patients treated with drugs such as dopamine agonists to ease symptoms like tremors, stiffness, and slowness.

In severe cases, the new addictions that people develop on the drugs can be devastating -- leading to ruined finances and relationships -- and they’ve generated a raft of lawsuits against drug manufacturers.

In November, a French man won a high-profile case against the company that sells Requip, which he said turned him into a sex and gambling addict. In 2008, a Minneapolis man won a case involving gambling addiction against the maker of Mirapex.

As a result, dopamine agonists now carry warnings about compulsive behaviors on their labels.

“A missing piece to the story was whether just Parkinson’s disease itself has any effect or plays any role on the risk of having these problems” without the drugs, says researcher Daniel Weintraub, MD, a psychiatrist at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia.

In the largest such study to date, Weintraub and his team set out to answer that question by screening a group of 168 newly diagnosed and untreated people with Parkinson’s for impulsive behaviors. The researchers compared them to a similar group of 143 healthy people who didn’t have the disease.

“What we found was that the reporting of symptoms of impulse control disorders was not any different in the two groups,” Weintraub says.

For example, 1.2% of people with Parkinson’s reported problems related to gambling compared to 0.7% of the healthy group. Compulsive buying behaviors were reported by 3% of the Parkinson’s group compared to 2.1% of the healthy group. About 7% of the Parkinson’s group reported compulsive eating compared to about 11% of the other group. And compulsive sexual behaviors were reported by 4.2% of the Parkinson’s group compared to 3.5% of the healthy group.

Overall, about 20% of both groups showed signs of problems with some kind of impulse control.

The findings, which are in the journal Neurology, are the first published data from the Parkinson’s Progression Markers Initiative, a landmark $50 million effort to follow 400 newly diagnosed patients with Parkinson’s to learn more about how the disease develops. The project is sponsored by the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research.

The research echoes the findings of a smaller Italian study, which was published in 2011.

“To have some confirmation of those findings is important,” says Mark Stacy, MD, a neurologist and professor of medicine at Duke University School of Medicine.

Stacy was one of the first doctors to report problems with impulse control in Parkinson’s patients taking dopamine agonists, but he was not involved in this research. He says the new study suggests that compulsions are probably the result of some complex interplay between the drugs and the disease.

Researchers plan to follow these patients for several years to see if people who show poor impulse control before starting the medications may be more likely than those who don’t to develop impulse control disorders on the drugs.

Doctors have no way to predict which patients will have problems on the drugs.

“Hopefully we can determine if there are specific risk factors for these behaviors going forward,” says Martin Niethammer, MD, PhD, a neurologist at North Shore-LIJ’s Movement Disorders Center in Great Neck, N.Y.

“We now know it’s not part of the disease, so anyone who starts these dopamine agonist medications should be told about these problems,” says Niethammer, who was not involved in the research.

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Volleyball Champ Kerri Walsh Jennings Talks Baby No. 3

By Gina Walsh
WebMD Magazine - Feature

At the London Olympics last summer, beach volleyball player Kerri Walsh Jennings and her teammate, Misty May-Treanor, set a record that may stand for decades: three straight Olympic gold medals. In the four years since the pair stood atop the podium in Beijing, Walsh Jennings, now 34, had given birth to two sons, one year apart.

As the unbeatable pair watched the U.S. flag rise to claim their third gold, Walsh Jennings had other big news brewing: She was five weeks pregnant with her third child. Here, she muses about pregnancy cravings, juggling two toddlers and an Olympic career, and her plans for the future. (Hint: She's not slowing down.)

1. Did you realize at the Olympics that you were pregnant?

I knew as well as I could know without getting it confirmed. I was late, about a couple of days, and then I got more and more late. And then I started having something happen that had only happened during my previous pregnancies: When I'd sneeze, I'd feel a ... pain in my tummy muscles. I thought, "Hey, this only happens when I'm pregnant!"

2. Boy or girl -- are you going to find out?

We found out on Christmas morning with the boys and we're going to do the same with this one. I have an appointment in two weeks for my 4D ultrasound, and we'll bring in two different ornaments, pink and blue, and have my doctor [secretly] select the right one and put it in a box. We'll wrap it up and put it away for safekeeping, and it will be the last present under the tree that we open.

(Update: Over the holidays she announced she's expecting a baby girl.)

3. How did you juggle training for international competition while riding herd on two toddler boys [Joseph Michael, born in May 2009, and Sundance Thomas, born in May 2010]?

Basically, my husband [beach volleyball player Casey Jennings] and I are a really good team. He made me really comfortable with my schedule. He made our family a priority so Misty and I could go in and win a gold medal, and that took all the pressure off. My little sister KC was our nanny on the road in London. It's always been my dream in life to be a working mom and have this amazing career. We knew the madness of it all, but we do it as a team. In 2011, they went wherever we went: all around the world, from China to Brazil to Europe. In 2012, there was a little less travel for them: They only went to Rome and London. My husband and I want to keep playing and go for the gold in Rio as well, so we'll hopefully see a lot more places as a family. That's my dream.

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Caggie Dunlop Interview

The former Made In Chelsea star talks about a possible return to TV and admits that she never dated Spencer Matthews...

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Ben Affleck and George Clooney at the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards in LA

Ben Affleck was delighted with his awards haul on the night. The actor won Best Film and Best Director for his movie, Argo

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Emmy Rossum at the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards

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Marion Cotillard at the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards

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