Each year, around 90,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with Parkinson’s, a neurodegenerative disease that can cause tremors and affect cognition. Scientists are working to identify some of the ...

A new study from UCLA Health has found that long-term residential exposure to the pesticide chlorpyrifos is associated with more than a 2.5-fold increased risk of developing Parkinson's disease. The ...

Amy Lindberg spent 26 years in the Navy and she still walked like it—with intention, like her chin had someplace to be. But around 2017, her right foot stopped following orders. Lindberg and her ...

Parkinson's disease affects more than 1.1 million people in the U.S. Early treatment of obstructive sleep apnea -- a condition that causes breathing to briefly pause -- may decrease the risk of ...

In the late 1960s, scientists discovered a miracle drug for Parkinson’s disease — a simple, inexpensive dopamine-replacement pill called levodopa. It transformed the lives of millions of people.

As teenagers, David Toth and his sister grew up working at their dad’s dry-cleaning business in Rochester, N.Y. Decades later both were diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Doctors told them it was ...

A common chemical that is widespread in the U.S. has been linked to an increased risk of Parkinson’s disease, researchers say. In a recent study published in the journal Neurology, researchers found a ...

A virus long thought to be harmless may actually play a role in Parkinson’s disease, a condition that affects more than one million Americans. Northwestern Medicine scientists discovered Human ...

Parkinson's disease is not a natural consequence of aging; it is an unnatural one, maintain neurologists Ray Dorsey, MD, of Atria Health and Research Institute in New York City, and Michael Okun, MD, ...

Parkinson's is a neurologic disease that robs people of control over their movements. It typically starts with tremors and is characterized by slow movement, a shuffling gait, stiff limbs, balance ...

An estimated 1.1 million Americans are living with Parkinson’s disease (PD), making it the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer’s. “Parkinson’s is a disease in which neurons ...

“The hypothesis is that a long-term, low-burning infection might lead to these sorts of diseases,” such as Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders, says Barbara Hanson, a researcher ...