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• Parkinson's Drugs Again Linked to Compulsive Disorders

  June 25 (HealthDay News) -- People taking dopamine agonists to treat Parkinson's disease are at ...

• New Hope for Parkinson's Patients

  June 24 (HealthDay News) -- A new medication and an improved delivery system for an ...

• Drug May Cut Tremors Associated with Parkinson's

  June 2 (HealthDay News) -- A new drug may help people with Parkinson's disease combat ...

• Viagra May Protect Hearts of Some Muscular Dystrophy Patients

  May 12 (HealthDay News) -- Patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy often suffer from heart failure, ...

• Electrode Placement Key to Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Patients

  May 12 (HealthDay News) -- A few millimeters can make a huge difference for Parkinson's ...

• Botox Works on Muscle Disorders But Not on Migraines

  May 5 (HealthDay News) -- Botulinum toxin, known to many as Botox, is safe and ...

• Eye Cell Implants Improve Parkinson's Symptoms

  April 28 (HealthDay News) -- By implanting specialized cells found in the human eye into ...

• Common Medications May Harm Memory in Older People

  April 17 (HealthDay News) -- Common medications known as anticholinergic drugs -- used to treat ...

• Formaldehyde Linked to Lou Gehrig's Disease

  April 16 (HealthDay News) -- New preliminary research suggests that exposure to the chemical formaldehyde, ...

• Sleep Disorder Linked to Neurodegenerative Conditions

  April 15 (HealthDay News) -- Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder -- a condition ...

• Elevated Urate Levels May Slow Parkinson's in Men

  April 14 (HealthDay News) -- Men with naturally high levels of the antioxidant urate in ...

• Reprogrammed Cells Reduce Parkinson's Symptoms

  April 7 (HealthDay News) -- Transplanted neurons derived from reprogrammed adult skin cells successfully integrated ...

• Parkinson's Disrupts Stem Cell Therapy Transplants

  April 6 (HealthDay News) -- Current therapies using stem cell transplants in the brains of ...

• Family Study Associates Pesticide Use with Parkinson's Risk

  March 28 (HealthDay News) -- Parkinson's disease has been linked to exposure to pesticides in ...

• Poor Sense of Smell May Be Early Sign of Parkinson's

  March 28 (HealthDay News) -- An impaired sense of smell could be an early indicator ...

• Therapeutic Cloning Works in Mice with Parkinson's

  March 24 (HealthDay News) -- Therapeutic cloning successfully treated Parkinson's disease in mice, researchers report. Using ...

• Gene Linked to Form of Parkinson's Disease

  March 21 (HealthDay News) -- Mutations in a gene called GIGYF2 may be directly linked ...

• Parkinson's Drug May Fight Cancer

  March 17 (HealthDay News) -- The drug dopamine -- currently used to treat patients with ...

• New Gene for Lou Gehrig's Disease Identified

  Feb. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have implicated a new, yet rare, genetic mutation in ...