Many years ago, I wrote a food column for our local newspaper. I called it “Cooking with the Seasons” and told people how to grow and cook with food from their gardens. One year, my husband, John, said, “We should try tapping a few maple trees and making our own…
Serina Therapeutics has entered into definitive agreements for a private placement that could provide up to $30 million to support the advancement of its clinical trial evaluating SER-252 (POZ-apomorphine) as a treatment for people with advanced Parkinson’s disease. The global Phase 1b trial (NCT07422675) is evaluating the…
Treatment with pirepemat, an oral medication in the pipeline at Irlab Therapeutics AB, may help reduce the risk of falls in people with Parkinson’s disease when reaching its optimal blood concentration, according to newly shared data from a clinical trial in Europe. “Topline results showed a markedly reduced…
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I returned home from the Parkinson’s Policy Forum in Washington, D.C., feeling two things at once: encouraged and unsettled. I felt encouraged because I was surrounded by passionate, committed people — advocates, care partners, researchers, clinicians, and people living with Parkinson’s disease — all working or change. I…
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Some of the moments that stay with me the most aren’t the big, expected ones. They’re the moments that caught me off guard, when everything felt a little tense, a little uncertain, and then somehow turned into something I ended up laughing about later. One evening, after spending the day…
Scientists have developed an experimental gene therapy with the potential to treat early-onset Parkinson’s disease associated with PRKN gene mutations, according to a new preclinical study. Delivery of the gene therapy carrying a functional version of the PRKN gene into the brains of two mouse…
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