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Publication by Branch Members in “Regenerative Medicine”

We are pleased to report that an invited paper entitled Adventures with Parkinson’s: empowering Parkinson’s patients to become active partners in research and treatment has been published in a special…

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Focused ultrasound shows promise for treating Parkinson’s tremor

Science Daily reports that an initial test to determine if a scalpel-free form of brain surgery can reduce tremor caused by Parkinson’s disease has produced encouraging results. Further research is…

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Ben Stecher’s blog tackles cell replacement therapy

Ben Stecher was in Edinburgh earlier this year on a fact-finding trip on current research into Parkinson’s and wrote up his experiences in his blog. Now he has written an…

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Diabetes Drug Improves Parkinson’s Motor Symptoms in Small Trial

From Alzforum :   17 Aug 2017 August brought some welcome news for the Parkinson’s community: results from a Phase 2 clinical trial suggested the diabetes drug exenatide halted the…

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Music therapy helps people with Parkinson’s

Elizabeth Stegemöller arranged a circle of metal folding chairs around a piano as clients started arriving for a weekly music therapy class for people with Parkinson’s disease. For the next…

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New drug may treat and limit progression of Parkinson’s disease

According to Science Daily, researchers at Binghamton University have developed a new drug that may limit the progression of Parkinson’s disease while providing better symptom relief to potentially hundreds of…

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