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A blood test may be as accurate as a spinal fluid test for differentiating Parkinson's disease from atypical parkinsonism disorders, according to a new study. 
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MIAMI, June 10, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --The National Parkinson Foundation (NPF) released an important study stressing the importance of neurologist care at the 18th International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders in Stockholm this week. The key finding is that expert neurologist care not only saves about 4,600 lives, but better access to this.
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Patients with Parkinson\'s disease have more of the clumping protein found in Lewy bodies, alpha-synuclein, in the cutaneous nerves supplying the sweat glands and pilomotor muscles.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Seven-time major league All-Star Dave Parker is dealing with Parkinson's disease. Parker told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he was diagnosed with the disease in February 2012.
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A new home tracking system based on a Microsoft Kinect sensor will help patients with the symptom of ‘freezing of gait.’
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Parkinson’s compresses you, Bruce Wright says of the disease he’s lived with since 2005. It makes your life smaller, slower and more careful.
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Maura Horton launched MagnaReady, a line of dress shirts that replace buttons with magnets, so that her husband -- former North Carolina State assistant football coach Don Horton -- could still dress independently.
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Rock Steady gives people suffering from Parkinson's disease an outlet to improve their fitness.
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Certain parts of a person\'s saliva gland have been tested as a way to diagnose Parkinson\'s disease, leading the way for an accurate way to identify the disease in living patients.
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Electrical stimulation using extradural electrodes—placed underneath the skull but not implanted in the brain—is a safe approach with meaningful benefits for patients with Parkinson's disease, reports the October issue of Neurosurgery, official...
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As the world struggles to make sense of Robin Williams' death, his wife Susan Schneider revealed in a statement that the beloved actor was suffering from early stages of Parkinson's Disease:
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We’ve all heard the mantra “health is everything” but most people have no idea how they would react upon learning that they had a chronic life-changing illness, like Parkinson’s disease.
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We visit the Muhammad Ali Parkinson’s Center in Phoenix to find out how their community outreach program is helping patients learn to live fuller lives
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At the present, no cure exists for Parkinson's disease, although symptomatic intervention, including treatment with dopamine agonists, can alleviate patients' motor impairment.
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Researchers are making strides in understanding the disease, its causes, and treatment. Heres a look at some of the latest scientific findings.
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Its estimated that seven to 10 million people around the world live with Parkinsons disease, which disrupts the brains ability to produce dopamine. Researchers are still working on a cure, but early detection can drastically improve the prognosis.
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Ben Petrick once hid his Parkinson's, but the truth finally set him free
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Swedish scientists may have discovered a way of stopping dyskinesia, or involuntary movements, in mid-to-late stage Parkinson's disease.
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