26 May 2016 This week commencing 23 May, international pharma company Zambon and its partner Newron Pharmaceuticals launched a new Parkinson’s drug called safinamide (trade name Xadago®) in the UK. The drug gained approval in the EU last December following a 2 year study in people with mid to advanced Parkinson's who were already taking [...]
28 June 2016 Researchers in Canada have discovered that the genes affected in Parkinson's play an important role in protecting cells from attack by the body's own immune system. PINK1 and Parkin are the genes that are thought to keep the cell batteries, or mitochondria, healthy. The new findings were published in scientific journal Cell and they [...]
The San Diego Union-Tribune - Stem cell-derived neurons transplanted into the brains of Parkinsons' patients may be controllable by drugs after transplantation, according to research performed in a mouse model of the disease. If the work can be translated to humans, it would allow doctors to fine-tune the transplanted neurons to the needs of individual [...]
by Drs.Like Wu, Xiaojuan Wang, Bo Cheng, Susan Chu and Shengjie Liu Wu Medical Center, Bejing, China About PD Parkinson's disease (PD) is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system, PD is more commonly seen in the elderly. With most cases occurring after the age of 60, the sickness rate after the age of 65 [...]
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have used a completely new preclinical technique and analysis of tissue from patients to show exactly what happens when certain patients with Parkinson's disease are restored as a result of nerve cell transplants. They have also identified what makes many of the transplant patients develop serious side effects in [...]
In the late 1980s and over the 1990s, researchers at Lund University in Sweden pioneered the transplantation of new nerve cells into the brains of patients with Parkinson's disease. The outcomes proved for the first time that transplanted nerve cells can survive and function in the diseased human brain. Some patients showed marked improvement [...]
