A unique and innovative telemedicine project is providing distant nursing home patients with Parkinson’s disease access to neurologists at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC).A pilot study of the project – the results of which were released this month at the International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders in Paris – demonstrates that the system can improve the quality of life and motor function of patients.

Women who have more years of fertility (the time from first menstruation to menopause) have a lower risk of developing Parkinson’s disease than women with fewer years, according to a large, new study by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University.

Online survey finds many patients and caregivers unprepared for the mental and behavioral changes associated with the disease

Deep brain stimulation, a surgical technique often viewed as a last resort for people with Parkinson’s disease, halts the progression of dopamine-cell loss in animal models, according to preliminary research by scientists at the Neuroscience Institute at the University of Cincinnati (UC) and University Hospital.