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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.  ... 

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 ... 

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 ... 

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 ... 

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. ... 

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 ... 

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 ... 

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 ...