Parkinson's disease currently affects nearly one million Americans with no specific known cause and no cure. Treatments have come a long way over the past few decades focusing on managing symptoms and improving quality of life through medication, surgical options like deep brain stimulation, ...
New research is raising the possibility that a virus that is seemingly otherwise harmless to humans could possibly trigger the onset of Parkinson’s disease. The data from Northwestern Medicine published in July shows that some cases are linked to genetics but that most are not, and the ...
When Ralph DeLucia was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at age 57 in 2012, he never thought he’d be bobbing and weaving, or punching heavy bags in a boxing gym 12 years later. After learning that Parkinson’s, a disease that affects the nervous system, would progressively impair ...
