A team led by University College London Institute of Neurology discovered ambroxol therapy could be used as a neuroprotective compound to treat patients with Parkinson’s disease both with and without glucocerebrosidase (GBA1) gene mutations. This study was sponsored...
The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for a new Positron Emission Tomography (PET) drug to combat Parkinson’s disease. Fluorodopa F 18 Injection (NDA 200655) will help visualize dopaminergic nerve...
There is tremendous value in identifying new purposes for existing drugs. Recently, Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) embarked on a project to do just that for Parkinson’s disease with a cancer drug called nilotinib (Tasigna). They found that the drug in...
Researchers from the Center for Neurogenetics and colleagues from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine report a novel small-molecule modulator called S-181 shows promise in preclinical research animal studies for the treatment of a familial form of...
Gene therapy is making a comeback in the world of neurodegeneration research, as evidenced by this year’s Society for Neuroscience conference held in Chicago. With the success of Novartis Zolgensma (gene therapy for spinal muscular atrophy in infants), money...
Imagine having a stroke or Parkinson’s disease and how difficult it could be to get to a doctor’s appointment. Or being in a remote part of the world where medical facilities are few and far between. Having a video clip of your movements being reviewed and diagnosed...
