Cell transplants used to fend off Parkinson's symptoms
...on, half of the participants showed improvement of dyskinesia - involuntary movements that are a result of medications....New Method For Measuring Dyskinesia In Parkinson's Being Developed
...rity of involuntary, uncontrolled movements called dyskinesia in Parkinson's disease is being developed// and a ...ecreases the robustness of clinical trials testing dyskinesia treatments.” When it comes to measuring a new therapy’s effects on dyskinesias — the involuntary, u...Older Medication May Be More Cost-Effective for Some Schizophrenia Patients
...ch as development of the movement disorder tardive dyskinesia (TD), diabetes, cardiovascular problems, or other medical conditions that can develop even years after a patient with chronic schizophrenia starts taking an antipsychotic medication. Despite these caveats, the study results suggest new ways of thinki...Newborns With Respiratory Distress Potentially Have Rare Genetic Disease
... about 80 percent of patients with primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) have a history of newborn respiratory distress. "The diagnosis of PCD requires a high index of suspicion, but PCD must be considered in any term newborn who develops respiratory distress or persistent hypoxemia (low oxygen in the blood), espe...