Most people with Parkinson’s disease who’d experienced recurring falls found a personalized, home-based fall prevention program in Australia helpful for improving their safety and confidence. That’s according to a new assessment of the six-month program, dubbed Integrate, which was shown to reduce fall rates by nearly half among participants…

Was it really Parkinson’s disease? What else could these symptoms be? Could there have been some mistake? Is this just a crazy dream that I’ll wake up from? What will the future look like? Why us? I could probably go on all day, using up my maximum of 800…

Continuous exposure to low-oxygen air halted neurodegeneration and eased or reversed motor symptoms in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease, a study reports. “The results raise the possibility of an entirely new paradigm for addressing Parkinson’s,” Fumito Ichinose, MD, PhD, senior coauthor of the study, said in a…

I achieved a major accomplishment recently. Not only did I ride in a boat, but I was also able to use the tiny, foldable swim ladder off the back of the boat to go swimming — and I didn’t hurt myself. To an average person, this may not seem like…

ENERGI-F705PD, a potential disease-modifying therapy for Parkinson’s disease, was found to be safe and well tolerated in a Phase 1 clinical trial involving healthy volunteers, according to developer Energenesis Biomedical. Unlike currently available treatments, ENERGI-F705PD aims to address the causes of Parkinson’s and not just its symptoms.