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July 2, 2020July 2, 2020

Winners for BEAT-PD DREAM Contest to Better Track Parkinson’s Named

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The four winners of the Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF) and Sage Bionetworks Parkinson’s disease (PD) challenge to create new ways of using everyday technology to benchmark and predict disease ... Read more

July 2, 2020July 2, 2020

FDA Approves Medtronic’s Percept PC Deep Brain Stimulation System

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Percept PC Neurostimulator by Medtronic, designed to allow for a more individualized use of deep brain stimulation therapy in people with Parkinson’s disease ... Read more

July 1, 2020July 1, 2020

Melatonin Levels in Parkinson’s Patients May Be Linked to Non-motor Symptoms

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Alterations in the levels of melatonin — the hormone that controls sleep-wake cycles — circulating in the blood are associated with certain non-motor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, namely sleep disturbances, ... Read more

July 1, 2020July 1, 2020

Cell Protein Recycling Linked to Toxic Buildup in Brain in Early Study

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Lower than usual activity in a complex that recycles proteins in cells — called the proteosome — leads to an age-related buildup of protein aggregates in the brains of fish, ... Read more

June 30, 2020June 30, 2020

3 Nurse Educators Win Parkinson’s Foundation Grants for Local Projects

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The Parkinson’s Foundation announced the three winners of this year’s Nurse Faculty Award, giving about $10,000 to each of these nurses to support projects that might better the lives of Parkinson’s patients in ... Read more

June 30, 2020June 30, 2020

Seelos Begins Animal Study Investigating SLS-007 as Parkinson’s Treatment

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Seelos Therapeutics has begun a preclinical study in rodents to test a gene therapy approach to deliver its investigational candidate SLS-007, a potential treatment for Parkinson’s disease. Results are ... Read more

June 29, 2020June 29, 2020

MJFF Offering Comprehensive Guide for Newly Diagnosed Patients

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The Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF) is offering a guide to help people newly diagnosed with Parkinson’s navigate the early days of their disease, and better prepare for the future. Called ... Read more

June 29, 2020June 29, 2020

Equfina, Known as Xadago in US, Approved in S. Korea as Levodopa Add-on

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Equfina (safinamide) has been approved in South Korea as an add-on therapy to levodopa for Parkinson’s disease patients who experience “off” episodes, Eisai, which is marketing this medication in ... Read more

June 26, 2020June 26, 2020

Stopping Trimetazidine May Ease Parkinson’s Symptoms, Improve Quality of Life, Study Says

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Discontinuing trimetazidine treatment in people with Parkinson’s disease may lessen their motor and non-motor symptoms and improve their quality of life, a study has found. The study, “The Impact ... Read more

June 26, 2020June 26, 2020

Subtle Alterations in Postural Behavior May Help Diagnose Parkinson’s Earlier

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People with Parkinson’s have postural adjustments even at early stages of the disease when clinical symptoms of postural instability are not evident and despite the use of antiparkinsonian medications, ... Read more

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