The investigational liquid therapy ND0612 — an around-the-clock supply of levodopa/carbidopa infused via a pump under the skin — provides more stable motor control in people with Parkinson’s disease who experience motor fluctuations than standard immediate-release levodopa/carbidopa. That’s according to data from the randomized portion of the…
Parkinson’s UK is paving the way for a future clinical trial that will continue to test a naturally occurring protein, the glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor or GDNF, as a potential therapy for slowing Parkinson’s disease progression. The new trial will follow a 2019 clinical study of…
Have you ever left a follow-up appointment with the neurologist that felt unfinished? If you are having a bad day, it shows. But it may not be disease progression, it may just be a bad day. It is hard to convey a true representation of “how we are doing” in…
PhotoPharmics’s Spectramax light therapy reduces disease severity, lessens non-motor symptoms, and improves the quality of life of Parkinson’s patients, according to recent results of a controlled clinical study. The study,“Double-blind controlled trial of Spectramax™ light therapy for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease patients on stable dopaminergic…
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