When Michael Okun, MD, first used the term “Parkinson’s pandemic,” he was written off as alarmist. That was over a decade ago, and since then, rates of the neurodegenerative disease have risen at a ...

While some cases of Parkinson’s disease are genetic, the vast majority have no known cause. Now, scientists have discovered that a virus that has flown under the radar for years might be a potential ...

A Northwestern Medicine research lab has found a usually harmless virus in brain samples from Parkinson’s patients. The idea that Parkinson’s could be linked to a virus had been theorized for years, ...

When my grandfather was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2014, I assumed it was pure bad luck—perhaps from some secret misprint wired deep in his genetic code, or something that “just happened” ...

A virus long thought to be harmless may actually play a role in Parkinson’s disease, a condition that affects more than one million Americans. Northwestern Medicine scientists discovered Human ...

Parkinson's Disease affects around a million people in the United States, and that number is on the rise, in part because our population is getting older. Dr. Claire Henchcliffe is the chair of ...

A new weekly injectable drug could transform the lives of more than eight million people living with Parkinson’s disease, potentially replacing the need for daily pills. Scientists from the University ...

Heavy metal rocker Ozzy Osbourne died this week at 76, just weeks after his farewell show and about five years after announcing he had Parkinson’s disease. Parkinson’s is a neurologic disease that ...