Positive Phase 1b Data of Parkinson’s Treatment Reported by Prothena
Prothena‘s potentially disease-modifying treatment for Parkinson’s disease, PRX002, met the primary objective in a Phase 1b multiple ascending dose…
Articles by Ana de Barros, PhD
Phase 3 Trial Protocol Amended for Parkinson’s Therapy Accordion Pill Carbidopa/Levodopa
Intec Pharma recently announced that the protocol for the global Phase 3 Accordance clinical trial (NCT02605434) has been…
PDF Offers Free Online Program to Help Parkinson’s Patients’ Caregivers
The Parkinson’s Disease Foundation (PDF) is marking this year’s National Family Caregivers Month by offering a set of free…
Treadmill Training Plus Virtual Reality Reduces Falls in Older Adults, Study Shows
A new study showed that treadmill training with a virtual reality component reduced fall rates compared to treadmill training alone in a…
Accordion Pill, Aiming to Bolster Parkinson’s Treatments, Gets Patent in China
Intec Pharma has been granted a Chinese patent  covering the company’s Accordion Pill, an experimental technology platform to allow for…
Genetic Links Found for Essential Tremor; Patients Needed for Clinical Trial
A large genome-wide study discovered a strong association between essential tremor, commonly misdiagnosed as Parkinson’s disease, and a…
‘Back to the Future’ Inspires Effort to Detect Parkinson’s in Its Earliest Phases
New research by the Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) aims to make possible the early detection of Parkinson’s disease (PD)…
University-developed Smart Clothing Monitors and Improves Lives of Parkinson’s Patients
A biomedical engineering professor from the University of Rhode Island (URI) is advancing the field of smart textiles to…
Michael J. Fox Foundation’s Nike Mag Auctions Raise $6.75M for Parkinson’s Research
The Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF) and Nike have so far raised $6.75 million for Parkinson’s disease research though…
University Awarded Prestigious Grant for Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinson’s Research
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)Â were awarded a five-year $7.3 million grant from the National Institutes…