Parkinson's Blog

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AI revolutionising Parkinson’s research, care

The Chief Medical Officer and Director of Global Healthcare and Non-profits at Amazon Web Services, Dr Rowland Illing, has said that the immense computational capacity of the cloud, along with the accelerating capabilities of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, is offering new hope in the speedy diagnosis and improved treatment of Parkinson’s disease. Illing, who […]
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Signs of Parkinson’s

April is Parkinson’s Awareness Month and, according to the Parkinson’s Foundation, nearly 90,000 people in the US are diagnosed with this disease every year.
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‘Parkinson’s is a man-made disease’

In the summer of 1982, seven heroin users were admitted to a California hospital paralyzed and mute. They were in their 20s, otherwise healthy — until a synthetic drug they had manufactured in makeshift labs left them frozen inside their own bodies. Doctors quickly discovered the cause: MPTP, a neurotoxic contaminant that had destroyed a … Lire plus