Category: Parkinson’s News

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.

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

Patients at a Manchester open event say the sport has had a transformative impact on their lives

New research could be able to predict Parkinson’s with an 86 per cent accuracy

Researchers have long wondered why some people with high-risk Parkinson’s gene variants develop the disease while others don’t.

World Parkinson’s Day, 11th of April, is a day dedicated to raising awareness about Parkinson’s disease

Today, on World Parkinson’s Day, awareness is raised for people across the EU living with Parkinson’s disease

Parkinson’s disease rising among younger Indians challenges clinical norms, demanding systemic healthcare recalibration for proactive management.

PSGK, a local non-profit organisation dedicated to supporting individuals with Parkinson’s disease, has organised a series of events to educate the public and p…

A tiny protein at the center of Parkinson’s disease also plays a surprising role in melanoma, a dangerous skin cancer. New research reveals that alpha-synuclein, which helps protect brain cells from DNA damage, may cause skin cancer cells to grow out of control by overperforming the same job. Whi