Brought into the limelight by actor Michael J. Fox, Parkinson's disease affects the body's ability to control movement.

Parkinson's is one of the most well known diseases that affects the brain and more specifically, the central nervous system.

Despite being a mainstay of Parkinson's disease treatment, levodopa, a dopamine-replenishing medication, can cause nasty side-effects with long-term use. A recent human trial found that a new drug ...

A new study by the University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Finland, found that a significant proportion of ...

From there, they estimated how common Parkinson’s disease is based on a slew of factors, including a person’s age and sex, from 2022 to 2050. The researchers estimated that the number of ...

The World Health Organization estimated that 8.5 million people worldwide were living with Parkinson’s disease in 2019. Researchers used data from the 2021 Global Burden of Disease Study ...