A new UCLA Health study suggests that long-term exposure to the pesticide chlorpyrifos may dramatically raise the risk of Parkinson’s disease. Researchers found that people living in areas with ...

Magalí Druscovich has followed Parkinson’s patients in the tango program for four years. For this piece, she and Pam Belluck talked with several people involved in the program. Tango is the national ...

This symposium reviewed the evolving understanding of the molecular pathophysiology and disease heterogeneity across Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD). Explored current and ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that an FDA-approved compound promotes neuroprotective effects in experimental models of Parkinson's disease. The compound, N-acetyl-L-leucine (NALL), ...

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) hold great promise for the treatment of Sjögren disease (SjD) owing to their potent immunomodulatory capacity. However, the precise molecular mechanism by which MSCs ...

Share on Pinterest How might groundwater impact Parkinson’s disease risk? New research investigates. Image credit: Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images A recent study evaluated how groundwater ...

Your drinking water source may increase your risk of developing Parkinson’s disease, a degenerative neurological disorder that causes shaking, stiffness and slow movement. People drinking groundwater ...

A new study from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, along with Oslo University Hospital in Norway, may have discovered a way to detect biomarkers of Parkinson’s disease in the blood up to ...

Researchers have identified a key molecular interaction that accelerates Parkinson’s disease by damaging the brain’s energy systems. They designed a new treatment that intercepts this harmful process, ...

Parkinson’s disease is a progressive movement disorder that damages nerve cells in the brain. This damage causes motor symptoms like tremor, stiffness, and problems with movement, and it can also ...

About 1 million Americans suffer from Parkinson’s disease, with around 90,000 new cases diagnosed each year, according to the Parkinson’s Foundation. The chronic, degenerative brain disorder destroys ...