Parkinson's Disease Stories
Some patients with Parkinson's disease respond to treatments they aren't actually given. Doctors are trying to understand why.
Someday, scientists could wield a protein to keep healthy neurons alive and block it to keep brain cancer cells at bay.
Researchers have discovered how coffee is able to protect some individuals from Parkinson's disease.
After a brutal legal battle over life support and suffering from Parkinson's disease for years, Casey Kasem has died at age 82.
Most of two dozen Parkinson's patients who have received dopamine fetal stem cell transplants have experienced an improvement of symptoms, researchers say.
Marijuana is making a record comeback in the U.S., and much of it is thanks to its ability to help people with certain illnesses.
Nanjing University researchers used a "cut and paste" gene mutation technique to breed monkey twins with modified genes, which could help make human disease research more accurate.
The newly developed drug ProSavin was shown to help suppress tremors, stiffness, and other motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease in a phase I trial.
A newly discovered protein may allow physicians to limit cell death associated with neurodegenerative disorders like Parkinson's disease.
Using mice, researchers showed the importance of circadian clock proteins in neurons, which, in their absence, could deteriorate and possibly lead to Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease.
Researchers from the National Institutes of Health have targeted a new set of genes responsible for igniting key mechanisms of Parkinson's disease.
A new type of laser may revolutionize treatment for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Creutzfeldt-Jakobs disease, and other neurodegenerative disorders.