Practicing Tai Chi four times a week may lessen motor symptoms and improve physical function and quality of life in people with early- to mid-stage Parkinson’s disease, a small clinical trial found. A program combining resistance and stretching exercises produced similar overall improvements in motor symptoms, but each approach…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has awarded fast-track designation — a status that aims to speed the development of promising treatments for serious conditions — to a Swiss biopharmaceutical company for an experimental vaccine designed to slow or prevent neurodegeneration in people with early Parkinson’s disease. The…

While my family and I discussed medication schedules, doctor appointments, and what foods might work best with my uncle Brandon’s Parkinson’s disease, he sometimes had a much more pressing question: “What’s for breakfast?” Usually, the question came with a smirk and his famous cackle, as if to remind us…

I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2019 at the age of 55, after my wife noticed a tremor in my left hand. Like many people, I left my doctor’s appointment with more questions than answers. My instinct was to try to maintain a sense of normalcy by following…

People with early Parkinson’s disease who received the oral therapy bezisterim in a Phase 2 clinical trial saw significant improvements in a measure of symptom severity compared with patients given a placebo, top-line results showed. Trial results also showed that bezisterim was generally tolerated well and that the therapy…