Levodopa News
Cell-based Therapy Shows Promise In Patients With Parkinson's Disease
A novel cell therapy using retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells attached to tiny gelatin bead microcarriers implanted in the brain can improve the symptoms of patients with moderate to advanced Parkinson’s disease (PD). Rush...
Orion Sues Sun Pharmaceuticals In The U.S. To Enforce Orion's U.S. Patent No. 5,446,194 Covering Its Proprietary Drug Stalevo®
Company states the realisation of generic competition is neither certain nor imminent.
H. pylori Eradication Improves Levodopa Absorption
Helicobacter pylori eradication and L-dopa absorption in patients with PD and motor fluctuations
Tuberculosis drug may cure Parkinson's-like illness
West Lafayette, Ind. — Researchers have discovered that a drug used to treat tuberculosis apparently cures patients of a Parkinson's-like illness suffered by thousands of mineworkers, welders and others exposed to high levels of...
Parkinson's disease, not levodopa, linked to melanoma
Buenos Aires - Levodopa therapy for Parkinson's disease (PD) does not have any causal link to cutaneous malignant melanoma, a systematic review of published evidence shows.