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If its reliability is confirmed in future trials, the test would allow doctors to diagnose the condition earlier and start therapies sooner, before nervous system damage worsens, the researchers said. Pot firms surge as US move to ease curbs sparks hopes of legalization Shares of marijuana companies jumped as much as 37% in morning trading on Thursday after a U.S. health agency’s proposal to reclassify it as a lower-risk substance boosted expectations of legalization at the federal level.

A new blood test that detects Parkinson’s disease may offer a way to diagnose the condition before nervous system damage gets worse.

An experimental blood test that detected Parkinson’s disease in a preliminary study could become the first specific tool…

About one in every five people carries a version of a gene that, although largely unsung, appears to confer protection against both Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease, Stanford Medicine investigators and their colleagues have learned.

Previous neuroimaging studies in Parkinson disease suggest an altered interaction at a structural and functional level between cortical and subcortical areas of the brain that each contribute to gait dysfunction.

A BARRHEAD woman has revealed how her footballer dad was a childhood hero of chat show host Michael Parkinson.

A Bayer cell therapy for Parkinson’s disease has met primary and secondary goals of its first test in humans, and the pharmaceutical giant is now planning for a larger Phase 2 clinical trial expected to begin enrollment in the first half of next year.