Many See Hope in Parkinson's Drug Pulled From Testing
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Some Parkinson's patients say drug developer Amgen robbed them of their only hope by ordering all patients off an experimental drug.
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Millions of Americans take medications to lower their cholesterol, but one such medication was taken off the market a few years ago after it led to a muscle disorder in those taking it.
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A conditional and limited approval of its cancer drug points to good news in a year of disappointments.
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NEW YORK  - Although symptoms of  Parkinson's disease often improve when the drug levodopa is  given, brain scan results suggest that the drug hastens  progression of the disease, according to a report in The New  England Journal of Medicine.
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A drug approved last year as a last-ditch hope for some lung cancer patients who didn&#39;t find relief from other forms of therapy has come up short in a large clinical trial.
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MONDAY, Nov. 29 (HealthDayNews) -- The antibiotic rifampicin showS promise as a potential treatment for Parkinson's disease, according to results of test tube research by scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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THURSDAY, Aug. 12 (HealthDayNews) -- An inexpensive drug called selegiline may be one of the best treatments during the early stages of Parkinson's disease, according to a study in the British Medical Journal.
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When Joana Ramos' father-in-law died recently, family members in Georgia sent her his left-over Parkinson's drugs rather than throw them out, in hopes they would help someone who couldn't afford them.
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NEW YORK  - Rates of malignant melanoma and   skin cancer are increased before a diagnosis of Parkinson's   disease, new research suggests. This casts doubt on the notion   that levodopa therapy for Parkinson's disease may contribute to   the observed higher risk of malignant melanoma in such   patients.
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A drug widely prescribed to treat symptoms of Parkinson's disease does not hasten the progression of the illness as some had feared, and it might even slow it down, a study suggests.
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More than a decade ago, a howl went up about the way new drugs were tested. Virtually all trials were limited to white males, even though some medical differences based on race are widely acknowledged.
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Two studies published on Thursday  offer new hope for Parkinson&#39;s disease -- one using gene  therapy to treat the symptoms and another investigating a drug  that might stop the incurable disease in its tracks.
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Parkinson's patients who now benefit from deep brain stimulation can thank former heroin dealer Toby Govea, who dosed on a bad batch of drugs that gave him Parkinson's symptoms.
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Another schizophrenia drug from the company shows promise in a clinical trial.
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An experimental test that analyzes proteins in spinal fluid offers hope for definitive diagnosis of the disease.
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WASHINGTON: A new medical study helps explain the puzzling effect of dopamine on patients suffering from the degenerative nerve disorder Parkinson&#39;s disease, said a report out Thursday.
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A drug widely prescribed to treat symptoms of Parkinson&#39;s disease does not hasten the progression of the illness as some had feared, and it might even slow it down, a study suggests.