Parkinsons

Two new studies suggest that stem cell treatments may be getting closer to becoming widely available for Parkinson’s patients. pocketlight/iStockphoto/Getty…

Besieged by thousands of lawsuits alleging that its paraquat weedkiller causes Parkinson’s disease, its manufacturer, Syngenta, has entered into an…

A University of Florida researcher has developed a groundbreaking open-source computer program that uses artificial intelligence to analyze videos of…

A longstanding mystery in Parkinson’s disease research has been why some individuals carrying pathogenic variants that increase their risk of…

A small protein involved in neurodegeneration leading to Parkinson’s disease also drives a type of skin cancer known as melanoma,…

A new study by the University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Finland, found that a significant proportion of Parkinson’s…

Parkinson’s doesn’t just affect movement and the brain — it may also impact the heart, according to new research from…

Several top scientists charged with overseeing research into disease prevention and cures at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) were…

Scientists have long struggled to target proteins that lack defined structure and are involved in cancer, neurodegenerative disorders like Parkinson’s…

Existing research indicates that the accuracy of a Parkinson’s disease diagnosis hovers between 55% and 78% in the first five…