According to a recent study called the Parkinson's Outcomes Project, individuals with Parkinson's who begin exercising for at least 2.5 hours a week earlier in the disease cycle see a slower decline ...

Doug Kirk of Cedar Rapids goes down the line of punching bags while running through a circuit during a boxing class for people with Parkinson’s at HallMar Village in Marion, Iowa on Thursday, July 3, ...

Long before it had a name, signs of Parkinson’s disease appeared in ancient medical texts. These historical accounts described individuals who experienced tremors and difficulty moving, although it ...

When Michael Okun, MD, first used the term “Parkinson’s pandemic,” he was written off as alarmist. That was over a decade ago, and since then, rates of the neurodegenerative disease have risen at a ...

New research suggests that changes in the mouth and gut bacteria of Parkinson’s disease patients could signal an early worsening of their symptoms. Scientists, utilising artificial intelligence (AI), ...

Researchers have identify a set of biomarkers that could someday make it easy to spot the disease in a patient's blood sample. Parkinson's disease is best known for its effects on the central nervous ...