Bio Detection Dogs Successfully Detect Parkinson’s Disease by Odour, Study Finds

People with Parkinson’s disease (PD) have an odour that can be reliably detected from skin swabs by trained dogs, a new study shows.
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Molecule offers hope for halting Parkinson’s

A promising molecule has offered hope for a new treatment that could stop or slow Parkinson’s, something no treatment can currently do.
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Cancer Drug Improved Cognition and Motor Skills in Small Parkinson’s Clinical Trial

Newswise imageAn FDA-approved drug for leukemia improved cognition, motor skills and non-motor function in patients with Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia in a small phase I clinical trial, report researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington. In addition, the drug, nilotinib (Tasigna(r) by Novartis), led to statistically significant and encouraging changes in toxic proteins linked to disease progression (biomarkers).
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