Almost every night during the warmer months, my husband, Arman, and I take a leisurely walk through our small neighborhood. It comprises just one street, and we have calculated that five laps around equals just over a mile. Since we both sit inside our house for hours, working all day,…
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Parkinson’s advocacy organizations are urging the newly established National Parkinson’s Project Advisory Council to move quickly to implement the project, a U.S. strategy to prevent, diagnose, treat, and ultimately cure Parkinson’s disease. The American Parkinson Disease Association (APDA), The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF),…
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The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) has granted $2.74 million to X-tosis to support the preclinical development of XTS001, the company’s lead candidate for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. The funding, granted through MJFF’s Parkinson’s Disease Therapeutics Pipeline Program, will support laboratory research…
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Rivalry made sense to me when it happened on a basketball court. Two teams, one ball, one scoreboard, and lines painted clearly enough that people yelling from the third row could pretend they saw everything perfectly. As a basketball official, I understood rivalry, and I loved it. Sports fans also…
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Clinical trials of UX-DA003, an experimental stem cell therapy for Parkinson’s disease developed by Unixell Biotechnology, can now begin in the U.S. following clearance from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The therapy aims to replace dopaminergic neurons, which are the nerve cells lost in Parkinson’s. It uses…
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A new personalized, adaptive deep brain stimulation (aDBS) system developed by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) helped improve gait and reduce falls in a small clinical trial involving people with Parkinson’s disease. By detecting neural signals and…
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