NEW PARKINSON’S DRUG SAFINAMIDE, LAUNCHED IN THE UK
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 [...]
Study Highlights importance of immune system in Parkinson’s
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 [...]
Dopamine-making neurons can be chemically controlled in animal model of Parkinson’s
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 [...]
Parkinson’s Disease
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 [...]
New technique can provide better cell transplants against Parkinson’s disease
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 [...]
Transplanted nerve cells survive a quarter of a century in a Parkinson’s disease patient
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 [...]