Parkinson's disease

Fetal Pig Cells Implanted In Stroke Patient Diacrin scientists along with doctors at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have become the first in the world to implant fetal pig brain cells into the brain of a stroke patient...

FDA Approves Comtan For Parkinson`s Disease The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted marketing approval to Comtan (entacapone) for use in Parkinson`s patients who are taking the drug levodopa...

Prions May Cause Alzheimer`s, Says Nobel Winner Dr. Stanley Prusiner, who won a Nobel Prize in 1997 for his discovery that prions cause certain neurodegenerative diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, now suggests that prions may play a role in other diseases...

Malfunctioning Wristwatch Early Clue To Parkinson`s The failure of a self-winding wristwatch to keep proper time signaled the early onset of Parkinson`s disease for one elderly woman, according to researchers...

Memory Loss: Don't Let Forgetfulness Frighten You Many people worry about becoming forgetful as they age. They think forgetfulness is the first sign of Alzheimer's disease...

Cell Implants For Parkinson's Are Ready For Human Tests A new brain implant therapy for Parkinson's disease that doesn't rely on human or animal fetal tissue has shown such promising early results in monkeys...

An Important Alternative Treatment for People with Epilepsy An electrical pacemaker implanted under the collar bone with wires that lead not down to the heart, but upwards to finally wrap around the vagus nerve. Once in place, an electric pulse is generated and relayed to the brain to control seizures. It ...

Engineering Body Parts From Scratch Today, a doctor treating a diabetic's hard-to-heal foot ulcer can open a sterile plastic bag, take out a swatch of artificial skin containing two layers of living human cells, and apply it to the wound to speed its healing...

Decade-Old Transplant Survives In Parkinson's Patient A decade after human embryonic brain cells were transplanted into the brain of a 69-year-old man with Parkinson's disease, the cells still survive and are releasing dopamine, a brain chemical, researchers report...

Research on rats may explain how habits are developed New brain research on rats may help scientists understand human conditions ranging from Parkinson's disease to addictive disorders...