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Can a Cup a Day Keep Parkinson's Away?
July 19, 2001 -- Evidence continues to mount that daily coffee drinking may protect against Parkinson's disease, a nervous system disorder characterized by tremors and rigidity that affects as many as one million Americans. So far, several studies have shown an association between high caffeine cons
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New Parkinson's Guidelines: Save Levodopa for Later
June 11, 2001 -- Levodopa has ended its 30-year reign as the first-line drug for the treatment of symptomatic Parkinson's disease. Even after all this time, levodopa still is considered the most effective Parkinson's treatment. But new treatment guidelines, announced in a special issue of Neurology,
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Physical Therapy Could Help Parkinson's Patients
May 25, 2001 -- What can be done for those with Parkinson's disease, a devastating neurological condition? Research to date suggests that exercise or physical therapy, when combined with medication, may help some people control their symptoms, at least for a while. Parkinson's disease is a progressi
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Brains at Work Against Parkinson's Disease
April 18, 2001 (Philadelphia) -- When actor Michael J. Fox retired from the sitcom Spin City last January, he made a commitment to focus his energies on aiding research for Parkinson's disease, an illness he was diagnosed with in 1991. His foundation, the Michael J. Fox Foundation, says a cure for t
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Stem Cell Research: Scientists Wait as Bush Decides
March 15, 2001 (Washington) -- Scientists are casting a worried eye toward Washington, as federal funding for possible disease-busting embryonic stem cell research is in limbo. And those with religious and moral objections to the research, which requires the destruction of microscopic human embryos,
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Jury Still Out on Cell Transplants for Parkinson's
March 7, 2001 -- In Parkinson's disease, brain cells stop making a crucial chemical called dopamine. Without it, muscle movement is poorly controlled, making it increasingly difficult to write, walk, or even speak. Drugs that replenish dopamine do provide some relief, but there is no cure, and the s
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Another Step Closer to Growing New Brain Cells for Parkinson's Patients
Feb. 16, 2001 (San Francisco) -- Scientists announced Friday that they were able to use cells from mouse embryos to replace lost brain cells in mice with symptoms of Parkinson's disease. The results represent a significant step toward using cells cultured from very early human embryos in therapies f
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Parkinson's Puzzle: Study Shows Genetic Link
Dec. 13, 2000 -- For some time, researchers have realized that patients who get the first symptoms of Parkinson's disease before age 50 may have inherited a predisposition to the disease. The more typical form of Parkinson's, where symptoms appear after the age of 50, may also have a genetic basis,
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Parkinson's Disease: Is It Something in the Air?
Nov. 5, 2000 -- The real causes of Parkinson's disease remain a mystery, but scientists are slowly unravelling their secrets. Researchers from Emory University in Atlanta announced that they have been able to show that environmental factors are likely to play a major role in the development of the i
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Gene Therapy Very Promising, Very Preliminary for Parkinson's
Oct. 26, 2000 -- Gene therapy for the prevention and treatment of Parkinson's disease has taken another step closer to reality, say U.S. and Swiss researchers in the Oct. 27 issue of the journal Science. More than one million Americans have been diagnosed with Parkinson's, which causes symptoms such
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