Scientists are calling for a ban on trichloroethylene (TCE), a common and widely used chemical that’s increasingly linked to multiple health problems, including cancer and Parkinson’s disease. “Through a literature review and seven illustrative cases, we postulate that this ubiquitous chemical is contributing to the global rise of PD…
Interface Systems has awarded Northwestern University student Laura Felix a $5,000 “Tech for Good” scholarship for creating an app that helps caregivers manage falls by Parkinson’s disease patients. Felix is studying computer science and physics at the university and the one-time scholarship is for the 2022-2023 academic year. Interface also…
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) is calling on adults 60 and older in the U.S. and Canada who do not have Parkinson’s disease to participate in the Smell Test Challenge, which aims to better understand the connection between loss of smell and neurological disease.
Teitur Trophics has raised €28 million (about $29.7 million) to advance its lead candidate, TT-P34, into a Phase 1b clinical trial as a possible treatment for Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. “There is a pressing need for new therapies for neurodegenerative diseases which have a detrimental impact on…
BlueRock Therapeutics will use digital health technologies from Rune Labs and Emerald Innovations to remotely monitor a subset of Parkinson’s disease patients in an observational clinical study. The goal of the two-year study (NCT05363046) is to shed light on patients’ daily experiences with the neurodegenerative disease via…
Newron Pharmaceuticals and Zambon Pharma have ended their plans to run a clinical trial to test Xadago (safinamide) for uncontrolled movements induced by levodopa in people with Parkinson’s disease. Xadago is widely approved as an add-on treatment to help manage Parkinson’s off episodes, or periods when symptoms…
Cure Parkinson’s and the Van Andel Institute (VAI) will continue to support a global program that seeks to develop disease-modifying therapies for Parkinson’s — to which the two donated $4.5 million in 2020. Now, the U.K. charity and the Michigan-based research institute have renewed their previous funding agreement…
Eating a tailored prebiotic fiber bar — meant to help nourish good bacteria in the gut — for 10 days boosted the abundance of anti-inflammatory bacteria in the microbiome of people with Parkinson’s disease, a proof-of-concept clinical trial reported. These effects were associated with better intestinal health and protection…
Olatec Therapeutics has been awarded a grant from the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) to further investigate its lead oral candidate, dapansutrile, in animal models of Parkinson’s disease. Such preclinical work will be conducted in collaboration with researchers at the Medical University of Innsbruck in Austria…
Overproduction of toxic forms of the alpha-synuclein protein — a Parkinson’s disease hallmark — in the vagus nerve, the longest nerve connecting the brain to the intestines and other key organs, disrupts the autonomic nervous system prior to motor symptom onset, a study in a new rat model reported. The…
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