MSA
dr. dolittle | June 20, 2012
Left: Derrik Hilton, an asistant in the laboratory of Dr. Charles Ide (right) at Western Michigan University. Image from: Katie Selden / Kalamazoo Gazette
Dr. Charles Ide from Western Michigan University has become a leader in the fight against Multiple symptom atrophy, or MSA, all because of frogs. His research on how contaminants in the Kalamazoo River impacts the health of frogs lead to the discovery that frogs injected with PCBs developed Parkinson's disease like symptoms.
Dr. Ide describes MSA (aka: atypical Parkinson's Disease) as being a trio of disorders making it especially life-…