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Newly discovered compound shows potential for treating Parkinson's disease
A joint research group centered around Professor Hideyuki Okano and Associate Professor Jun Kohyama, Department of Physiology of the Keio University School of Medicine...
3 days ago - News Medical - 7 articles
Parkinson's Kinetigraph Provides Clues for Better Therapy
The Parkinson's Kinetigraph measures movements and assesses medication compliance in the home setting. It has provided data that have changed patient management in a third of...
4 days ago - Medscape
Clinical Challenges: Sleep Problems in Parkinson's Patients
Meds that improve some symptoms can exacerbate others
4 days ago - MedPageToday - 2 articles
Centrally Mediated Pain Common in Parkinson's Disease
Pain is common in Parkinson's disease, but peripheral factors may not be to blame. Central factors are an important cause of pain so may require centrally acting drugs, a large...
6 days ago - Medscape
UCI Health Parkinson's Disease Symposium to behavioral symptoms, surgical options and research into novel therapies
UCI Health will present a free Parkinson's disease symposium on Saturday, Oct. 13, for patients and their caregivers to learn more about behavioral symptoms, surgical options...
9 days ago - UC Irvine Health - 2 articles
Forms of Sleep Disturbances Increase as Parkinson's Progresses
Sleep disturbances are common across the stages of Parkinson's disease and increase with disease progression. A study suggests that because there is little overlap, they may...
10 days ago - Medscape
New transgenic mouse model sheds light on biological causes of Parkinson's disease
Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that presents clinically with abnormal movement and tremors at rest.
10 days ago - News Medical - 2 articles
Severe Constipation Tied to Faster Progression in Parkinson's
About one third of patients with Parkinson's have constipation at diagnosis. For those who do, constipation severity at baseline predicts faster disease progression, a...
11 days ago - Medscape
Ketogenic Diet Helps Nonmotor Symptoms in Parkinson's
Both a low fat, high carbohydrate diet and a ketogenic diet improve Parkinson's symptoms, but the ketogenic approach benefited patients' nonmotor symptoms significantly better...
12 days ago - Medscape
Alzheimer's Aberrations; Dime-Sized Nerve Repair; 3-Minute Parkinson's Dx?
News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience
13 days ago - MedPageToday
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Scientists report epigenetic modifications in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's, after observing differences in histone acetylation across the genome.
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Analysis of an insurance claims database shows that more than half the patients treated with opioids were managed inappropriately, according to investigators developing...
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For men with newly diagnosed metastatic prostate cancer who have low metastatic burden, radiotherapy to the prostate provides significant survival benefits, say the STAMPEDE...
Messing Honored for Career of Innovation and Leadership in Urological Care
Leading researchers and clinicians from across the globe gathered in Rochester on October 18-19 to recognize the career of Edward Messing, M.D., F.A.C.S., and his 35 years of...
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