Tag: parkinson
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Japan’s Ohsumi wins Nobel Medicine Prize for work on cell ‘recycling’
Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan on Monday won the Nobel Medicine Prize for his work on autophagy — a process whereby cells “eat themselves” — which when disrupted can cause Parkinson's and diabetes. Autophagy is a fundamental process in cell physiology with major implications for human health and disease. The process is essential for the orderly degradation and recycling of damaged…
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U.S. approves first drug for psychosis linked to Parkinson’s
Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc’s drug for psychosis linked to Parkinson’s disease was approved in the United States on Friday, becoming the first treatment for the condition to get a nod in the country. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, however, asked Acadia to include a black-box warning, its strictest warning, on the drug’s label for an…