"You most assuredly have Parkinson’s Disease.” When I told my wife, after the initial shock, she insisted that I needed to get a second opinion. I called the UCSD med center but the next appointment ...

A new study from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, along with Oslo University Hospital in Norway, may have discovered a way to detect biomarkers of Parkinson’s disease in the blood up to ...

You might lose your sense of smell. Michael J. Fox developed early-onset Parkinson’s disease at age 29. Early PD symptoms include erectile dysfunction, acting out dreams, loss of smell, and dizziness.

Many people think of a tremor as the quintessential warning sign of Parkinson’s disease. But other symptoms — many of them not involving changes in movement — can appear much earlier than what’s known ...

Parkinson's disease, a progressive neurological disorder affecting more than 1 million people in the U.S. and more than 10 million globally, is characterized by debilitating symptoms such as tremors, ...

Scientists have found a key brain network that’s disrupted by Parkinson’s disease, according to a study published today in Nature. The results change doctors’ understanding of what causes Parkinson’s ...

A team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the Duncan Neurological Research Institute (Duncan NRI) at Texas Children's Hospital has uncovered a chain of events that connects genetic ...

Harrison Ford and Michael J. Fox are bonded for life. The actors worked together on Season 3 of “Shrinking,” which sees Fox, 64, join the cast as a Parkinson’s patient who befriends Ford’s Dr. Paul ...

Researchers have identified a key brain network that could reshape how doctors understand Parkinson’s disease and drive development of more precise treatments. Parkinson’s has long been viewed ...

In ‘body-first’ Parkinson’s disease, misfolded proteins propagate from the gut’s nervous system to the brain. Immune-cell activity seems to play a key part in this spread. The disease is diagnosed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. That’s one thing that’s amazing about Harrison. He doesn’t have Parkinson’s, but he’s a brilliant actor. I don’t have to convince ...

Scientists in Sweden and Norway have uncovered a promising way to spot Parkinson’s disease years—possibly decades—before its most damaging symptoms appear. By detecting subtle biological signals in ...