Parkinson's disease

Jeremy Bulloch, the English actor who played Boba Fett in the original “Star Wars” trilogy, has died.

It appears the curtain is closing on Michael J. Fox’s acting career. The Emmy winner, 59, writes in his new memoir, “No Time Like the Future,” that he is mulling another retirement from acting due to the effects of living with Parkinson’s disease for nearly 30 years.

Preparing for surgery isn’t what 60-year-old Christine Montoya expected to be doing during a pandemic, but going under the knife was the best option for getting back her life, slowly being taken away by Parkinson’s.

It’s never an easy decision to have surgery, but having to make that decision while COVID-19 runs rampant in hospitals makes things even tougher. A North Texas woman battling Parkinson’s weighed the pros and cons and landed on taking the chance. NBC 5 health reporter Bianca Castro shows us how how deep brain stimulation is giving her hope.

Heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne revealed Tuesday that he has Parkinson’s disease, according to NBC News.

In North Texas, bright young minds are hard at work and one in particular may be on the verge of shaping the future for patients with Parkinson’s disease. At 14 years old, it seems there’s nothing Anushka Sridhar hasn’t done. “Outside of school, I play volleyball, basketball, I’m a third-degree black belt in taekwondo. I do an Indian cultural...

Anushka Sridhar, an 8th grader in Plano, is working on vibration therapy for Parkinson’s patients in her great-aunt’s memory.

Nearly one million Americans will be living with Parkinson’s disease next year. So far, there is no cure, but medication can bring patients some relief from the symptoms. Now a neurologist at MedStar Washington hospital is trying something new with an old drug to give patients better quality of life. Seventy-three-year old Peter Leesam is dressed up to celebrate....

Nearly one million Americans will be living with Parkinson’s disease next year. So far, there is no cure, but medication can bring patients some relief from the symptoms.

No. 1 LSU talks `redemption’ vs Texas A&M after last season’s OT loss.

Louisiana is becoming the first Deep South state to dispense medical marijuana on Tuesday, four years after state lawmakers agreed to give patients access to therapeutic cannabis. Nine pharmacies are licensed to dispense medical marijuana across Louisiana and most are expected to open this week. Louisiana joins more than 30 other states that allow medical marijuana in some form. And...

Dopamine is a chemical that plays a vital role in diseases like Parkinson’s and depression. But monitoring a person’s dopamine levels can be a cumbersome process that involves complicated MRI testing. Now a group of researchers believe they have found a quicker way.

Dopamine is a chemical that plays a vital role in diseases like Parkinson’s and depression. But monitoring a person’s dopamine levels can be a cumbersome process that involves complicated MRI testing. Now a group of researchers believe they have found a quicker way.

The NFL concussion fund has paid out nearly $500 million in its first two years, but some players’ lawyers say there aren’t enough doctors in the approved network to evaluate dementia claims.

The Texas House has approved a bill that would expand the state’s medical marijuana laws to cover many more patients with a variety of different ailments and diseases.

This project that started in North Texas continues to flourish and helps those who suffer from Parkinson’s Disease, have a voice.

The Food and Drug Administration warned consumers on Tuesday that there’s no proof that blood plasma infusions from younger donors can treat diseases, prompting one company that charges thousands of dollars for the service to halt the treatments, NBC News reported. The company, Ambrosia, wrote in a statement on its website that it had “ceased patient treatments.” It has been...

George H.W. Bush’s service dog, Sully, made a last visit with the former president Tuesday, joining others paying respect to Bush as he lies in state in the Capitol Rotunda. Sully was already well-known as Bush’s service dog — his Instagram account has more than 150,000 followers — before an image of him lying beside Bush’s flag-draped casket shared by...

Scientists have found a new clue that Parkinson’s disease may get its start not in the brain but in the gut — maybe in the appendix. People who had their appendix removed early in life had a lower risk of getting the tremor-inducing brain disease decades later, researchers reported Wednesday. Why? A peek at surgically removed appendix tissue shows this...

They’re the tech-age version of donor jars at the diner: crowdfunding websites that aim to link ailing people with strangers willing to help pay for medical treatment. But new research suggests duped patients sometimes crowdfund to pay for bogus stem cell treatments. A study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association focused on for-profit clinics that use...