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American Family Physician
December 15, 2006
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Parkinson's Disease: Diagnosis and Treatment Family physicians should have a good understanding of Parkinson's disease because of its increasing prevalence as the population ages. Treatment should be individualized to decrease symptoms while minimizing motor and nonmotor complications.   |
The Motley Fool
April 27, 2011
Arundhati Parmar |
Medtronic and Eli Lilly Join Hands to Combat Parkinson's Disease The partnership aims to research and develop a new approach to treating the debilitating disease. |
Nurse Practitioner
June 2010
Laura M. Struble |
Tremors: Learning to stop the shakes Identifying the type of tremor is necessary to determine underlying neurologic disorders. The gold standard for diagnosing tremors is still history and physical exam. |
Wired
March 2007
Steven Gulie |
A Shock to the System To slow the progress of Parkinson's disease, doctors planted electrodes deep in my brain. Then they turned on the juice. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2008
Morgen E. Peck |
A Chip to Better Control Brain Stimulators for Parkinson's Michigan engineers are developing a closed-loop deep-brain stimulation device for Parkinson's disease that would listen to the brain while stimulating it |
The Motley Fool
July 12, 2011
Arundhati Parmar |
FDA Allows Expansion of St. Jude Study to Treat Severe Depression St. Jude moves forward with treatment for depression. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2006
Samuel K. Moore |
Psychiatry's Shocking New Tools Electronic implants and electromagnetic pulses are picking up where psychoactive drugs have failed. |
Chemistry World
February 4, 2014
Kirsty Muirhead |
Co-localization sheds light on mechanisms underlying Parkinson's disease Researchers in Australia have unveiled an immune-labelling and imaging mass spectrometry technique to demonstrate the interaction of iron and dopamine in the brain of a Parkinson's disease mouse model. |
Science News
Nathan Seppa |
Book Review: Deep Brain Stimulation: A New Treatment Shows Promise In The Most Difficult Cases By Jamie Talan / Science News Jamie Talan describes brain surgery aimed at addressing movement disorders and zeros in on deep-brain stimulation, a cutting-edge treatment in which doctors implant electrodes. |
Nurse Practitioner
August 2011
Davis et al. |
Supportive approaches for Alzheimer Disease Alzheimer disease accounts for almost 80% of all dementia diagnoses. Currently, more than 5 million Americans suffer from this debilitating illness, with the highest prevalence in the oldest age groups. |
Chemistry World
December 24, 2014
Phillip Broadwith |
EU recommends Parkinson's drug for approval The first new drug in 10 years for Parkinson's disease has been recommended for approval by the European Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use. |
BusinessWeek
March 7, 2005
Michael Arndt |
Rewiring The Body First came pacemakers. Now exotic implants are bringing new hope to victims of epilepsy, paralysis, depression, and other diseases. And some of the biggest names in health care are in a scramble to get into the market. |
Nursing
April 2008
Kathryn Murphy |
Shedding the burden of depression & anxiety Learn about types of depression and available treatments. |
BusinessWeek
April 22, 2010
Rob Waters |
Gene Therapy Takes a Turn for the Better Researchers and investors are heartened by advances in gene therapy. Analysts say revenues are still several years off, however. |
Chemistry World
July 3, 2014
Maria Burke |
Renewed focus on dementia checked by drug challenges The risks and barriers for companies working in dementia are huge, but so too, potentially, are the rewards, says Simon Ridley, head of research at Alzheimer's Research UK. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
July 1, 2011
Dickmeyer & Rosenbeck |
From Rut to Racetrack Can the pharmaceutical industry deliver on its objective to make cancer a curable, chronic condition? |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2007
Morgen E. Peck |
Deep-Brain Stimulators for Parkinson's Disease Increase Impulsive Decision Making Electronic brain implants make it harder to decide what's better than good. |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
Future Cures Almost every disease known to man is under constant research and we can hardly go a day without hearing about some advancement or another. Here are a few diseases for which future cures could be looming on the horizon. |
American Family Physician
December 15, 2006 |
Parkinson's Disease: What You Should Know What is Parkinson's disease?... How can I tell if I have Parkinson's disease?... How will my doctor know if I have it?... How is Parkinson's disease treated?... etc. |
The Motley Fool
June 10, 2011
Brian Orelli |
Abbott Picks Pumps Over Pills Treat Parkinson's disease, medical-device style. |
Chemistry World
June 2011 |
Breaking through the barrier Getting drug molecules into the brain means crossing the defensive blood-brain barrier. Anthony King investigates how chemists are infiltrating the brain's fortress |
The Motley Fool
April 27, 2011
Brian Orelli |
Don't Get Pumped Up About Pumping It In Medtronic and Eli Lilly team up against Parkinson's. |
AskMen.com
Chris Good |
Diseases You Thought You Were Too Young To Get As it turns out, many health conditions don't care about a man's age as much as we thought. |
Chemistry World
July 25, 2012
Nina Notman |
Tracking Chemical Changes in the Brain New insight into how deep brain stimulation works could improve treatments for neurological diseases. |
BusinessWeek
March 7, 2005
Michael Arndt |
"Pacemakers" for the Rest of You Slews of tiny devices that deliver electrical stimulation to a wide variety of organs should soon become available. |
Chemistry World
August 5, 2014
Philip Ball |
Faulty enzyme link offers new ways to fight Parkinson's A new avenue for treating Parkinson's disease could be opened up by research linking the role of a particular gene with this neurodegenerative condition. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
November 1, 2013
Ben Comer |
Top Medical Innovations for 2014 At the conclusion of the Cleveland Clinic's Medical Innovations Summit each year, 10 innovative technologies are unveiled before the audience, and designated as new and revolutionary tools for the treatment of disease and disability. |
American Family Physician
October 15, 2003
Sharon Smaga |
Tremor Tremor, a rhythmic, involuntary, oscillatory movement of body parts, is the most common movement disorder. |
Nurse Practitioner
September 2011
Cheryl L. Gainer |
Celiac Disease: Helping Patients Live Gluten-Free A review of the screening, diagnosis, and treatment of celiac disease. |
BusinessWeek
March 7, 2005 |
Dr. Oesterle's Stimulating Work Medtronic's chief medical officer, Dr. Stephen N. Oesterle, discusses the progress and potential of using "implanted pulse generators" to treat chronic ailments. |
Chemistry World
July 2010
Hayley Birch |
Special Report: Health breakthroughs of the decade New discoveries have been made with cancer vaccines, genomics, statin drugs, allosteric modulators, and RNA interference during the last decade. |
The Motley Fool
August 10, 2010
Ryan McBride |
Vertex's Telaprevir Clears Hurdle, Could Halve Treatment Times for Hepatitis C Study results are positive. |
Salon.com
October 25, 2000
Cynthia Kuhn & Wilkie Wilson |
Cured but worried I've been taking medication for my attention-deficit disorder. The drug really helps, but I'm afraid of its long-term effects... |
BusinessWeek
July 5, 2004 |
The Heart Is Just the Start CEO Art Collins explains how Medtronics is moving into treating spinal injuries, neurological disorders, diabetes, and more. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2007
Morgen E. Peck |
Researchers Testing New Electric Treatment for Migraines A small DC current through the skull seems to interrupt the headaches and may even prevent them |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2011
Joseph M. Smith |
Wireless Health Care Wireless technologies are about to transform health care, and not a moment too soon |
American Family Physician
June 1, 2003
Motsinger et al. |
Use of Atypical Antipsychotic Drugs in Patients with Dementia Increasingly, atypical antipsychotic drugs are prescribed for elderly patients with symptoms of psychosis and behavioral disturbances. To minimize side effects, these medications should be started at low dosages that are increased incrementally. |
American Family Physician
March 1, 2004
Zachary A. Flake |
Practical Selection of Antiemetics An understanding of the pathophysiology of nausea and the mechanisms of antiemetics can help family physicians improve the cost-effectiveness and efficacy of therapy. |
The Motley Fool
August 16, 2005
Karl Thiel |
New Life for Boston Life Sciences? The biotech's stock soars on news of potential approval of its imaging agent for Parkinson's and ADHD. Enthusiastic retail investors drove this week's huge move on the market, and those are the only folks who will be moving the stock for some time to come. |
Popular Mechanics
May 2006
Logan Ward |
Your Upgrade Is Ready Evolution has done its best, but there's a limit to our bodies capabilities. Wanna be Superman? Better call the engineers. |
Fast Company
May 2009
Chuck Salter |
The Doctor of the Future Cost, access, quality -- the prognosis for American health care may look grim, but innovation is the cure. The medicine of tomorrow is being born today. |
Chemistry World
January 30, 2012
James Urquhart |
Iron accumulation linked to neurogenerative disease Parkinson's and Alzheimer's could be caused by an accumulation of iron in regions of the brain, Australian researchers say. |
Chemistry World
July 11, 2008
Manisha Lalloo |
Side-effects study opens up new drug leads Existing drugs could be used to treat a broader range of diseases, according to scientists in Germany and Denmark, who have predicted drug targets by using side-effects data on medication labels. |
Chemistry World
October 6, 2015
Tim Wogan |
Rolled-up electrodes record brain activity without scarring Ultra-flexible neural electrodes have been created that can more precisely measure brain activity without causing tissue scarring. |
BusinessWeek
May 24, 2004
Arlene Weintraub |
Repairing The Engines Of Life Can research into stem cells and other advanced techniques heal ailing hearts and brains? U.S. labs are hamstrung by the federal government. |
Chemistry World
August 24, 2015
Rebecca Trager |
New drug treatment for alcoholism shows promise in animal studies Beta-carbolines developed by researchers at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, US, could offer a novel treatment for alcoholism that targets a specific receptor in the brain, rather than simply reducing dopamine levels. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011 |
Karl Deisseroth: In Support of Undirected Research A disease focus can color the scientific process. |
Job Journal
July 25, 2010
Josh Stone |
Physical Therapists Physical therapists have the satisfying job of helping patients make steady progress. |
The Motley Fool
August 27, 2008
Brian Orelli |
Teva Tells It Like It Is For Teva Pharmaceuticals, the details only confirmed the great initial report of the clinical trial success for its Parkinson's disease treatment Azilect. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2005
Willie D. Jones |
Fiber to the Brain Nanotech researchers have devised a method for attaching electrodes to small clusters of brain cells -- or even individual neurons -- using the cardiovascular system as the conduit through which wires are threaded. |
