Today, April 11, is World Parkinson’s Day. My first experience with a Parkinson’s disease patient came in one of my first jobs after college. Toiling as a reporter at a trade newspaper called Photo ...

Managing patients with Parkinson's disease should be viewed as part of a hospital CMO's responsibility for patient safety and quality. Hospital CMOs and their care teams need to take steps to avoid ...

Millions worldwide grapple with neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. While both worsen over time, ...

A mini-peptide has been created that delays the early damage caused by Parkinson's disease and promises a way to slow down ...

In this Healio video, David G. Standaert, MD, PhD, discusses a plenary session on protein aggregate clearance in aging brains presented at the 2025 International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and ...

Symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, which afflicts around 1 million Americans, usually begin gradually and worsen over time.

Rare diseases reveal that our sense of identity rests on fragile biological infrastructure, much of it operating outside ...

In this Healio video, Andres Deik, MD, MSEd, FAAN, discusses a presentation about the correlation between genes and environment in the development of Parkinson’s disease.

The most common prodromal symptom of Parkinson disease among community-dwelling older adults was cognitive deficit, followed by subthreshold parkinsonism, urinary dysfunction, and olfactory ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Having a larger waistline, high blood pressure and other risk factors that make up metabolic syndrome is associated with an increased risk of Parkinson’s disease, according to a study ...

For decades, medical understanding of Parkinson’s disease focused exclusively on the brain, specifically the death of dopamine-producing neurons that control movement. This narrow view shaped ...