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Wearable PKG System Can Help Identify Parkinson’s Patients Eligible for Device-Assisted Therapy, Study Shows

Data collected through Global Kinetics Corporation’s wearable device called Personal KinetiGraph (PKG) can help clinicians identify Parkinson’s patients who may benefit from deep-brain stimulation (DBS) or other device-assisted therapies. This finding was reported in the study, “The Use of Data from the Parkinson’s KinetiGraph…

Zonisamide with Levodopa May Reduce Risk of Dementia, Other Parkinson’s-related Symptoms, Japanese Study Suggests

Japanese researchers have reported that zonisamide — an antiparkinsonian medicine approved in Japan as a combination therapy with levodopa — may be associated with a lower risk of dementia, insomnia, and gastric ulcers in Parkinson’s disease, compared with other non-levodopa medicines. Their research was published in the…