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February 23, 2012

AREA BRIEFLY: Feb. 23, 2012

Anonymous Tribune-Star staff reports The Tribune Star Thu Feb 23, 2012, 05:00 AM EST

TERRE HAUTE —

Parkinson’s treatments to be discussed

Treatments are evolving and progressing for Americans afflicted with Parkinson’s disease.

The treatments offered at Union Hospital will be discussed during Friday’s gathering of the Terre Haute Parkinson’s Support Group. The session is scheduled from 10 to 11 a.m. in Westminster Village, 1120 Davis Drive., and is free and open to the public. Le Anne Shouse, marketing liaison for the Union Hospital Medical Rehabilitation Unit, will be guest speaker. Shouse has spent 23 of her 25 years at the hospital serving on the rehab unit.

Nationwide, new Parkinson’s treatments are developing. According to the Michael J. Fox Foundation newsletter, new lines of research into the progressive disorder are based on brain chemicals other than dopamine. For the past four decades, virtually all Parkinson’s treatments have focused on attempts to replenish lost dopamine, the brain chemical that helps control movement, balance and walking.

Instead, the Fox Foundation researchers see promise in some non-dopamine treatments that could control Parkinson’s symptoms, which include muscle rigidity, slowness of movement, speech difficulties and balance problems.

Parkinson’s afflicts more than 1 million Americans. No cure is known.

For more information about the Terre Haute support group, contact organizer Loyal Bishop at (812) 232-3207.

Washington man gets 14-year sentence

A 14-year sentence in federal prison has been handed down for a Washington man who admitted to distributing methamphetamine in southwestern Indiana.

Jeremy Mandabach, 32, was also sentenced Wednesday in Indianapolis by U.S. District Judge Jane E. Magnus-Stinson to an additional five years of supervised release after his prison time.

Mandabach served as a distributor for a methamphetamine and marijuana trafficking operation led by Jose Vasquez-Silva and Mario Rodas. The organization operated from about August 2009 through Dec. 9, 2010, and distributed about 15 pounds of methamphetamine a month.

Mandabach was among 19 people charged in a federal indictment in December 2010 after an investigation of a major methamphetamine trafficking ring that ran drugs from Chicago through the Wabash Valley to southern Indiana. Some members of the trafficking ring also were responsible for a violent attempted home invasion in Pimento in June 2010.

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