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MJFF is closed next week, but news will be back up after Labor Day! ... 
27 Aug 2010
Researchers at University College London Hospitals (U.K.) are starting a clinical trial to test Exenatide, a synthetic version of a compound originally found in Gila monster saliva. MJFF has funded ... 
27 Aug 2010
Clinical Trial News
According to an article in The Scientist, NIH Director Francis Collins says that he was "stunned" by the recent ruling halting research on embryonic stem cells.  ... 
26 Aug 2010
The American Society for Investigative Pathology has given Charleen T. Chu, associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh, their Outstanding Investigator Award. In a recent paper published in ... 
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26 Aug 2010
Categories: PDOR Spotlight
Nature Outlook, a supplement published by the Nature Publishing Group, takes on PD in its latest issue. News stories and previously published PD research papers are compiled in one place and are ... 
26 Aug 2010
Categories: Research News
In The Proceedings of the National Aacademy of Sciences (PNAS) this week, researchers report that healthy carriers of alpha-synuclein gene duplications have cognitive deficits before they experience ... 
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25 Aug 2010
Categories: Research News
Impax Pharmaceuticals has completed enrollment of its ADVANCE-PD Phase III trial of IPX066, an extended release carbidopa-levodopa drug. Results of the trial are expected in early 2011. ... 
25 Aug 2010
Categories: Clinical Trial News
Yesterday, a U.S. district court granted an injunction that prohibits the federal government from funding embyronic stem cell research. The injunction is associated with a lawsuit filed against the ... 
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24 Aug 2010
The Birmingham News reports that the University of Alabama at Birmingham is being funded by MJFF to participate in the Parkinson's Progression Marker Initiative (known as PPMI), a $40 million ... 
23 Aug 2010
Categories: Clinical Trial News
Researchers report that memantine, a drug that has shown positive results with Alzheimer's patients, may help patients with dementia with Lewy bodies. However, the drug did not seem to have an effect ... 
23 Aug 2010
Categories: Research News
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