Research Roundup New 'vaccine style' treatment shows promise for slowing Parkinson's. The drug works in a similar way to a vaccine, training the immune system to prevent clumps of a troublesome protein called alpha-synuclein forming and damaging brain cells. Dr Becky Jones, our Research Communications Manager, reflects on the early results from this study. "It’s particularly interesting to see that the people who received the active drug showed some stabilising of their movement symptoms. While this certainly needs more exploring, it’s positive that this could be an early sign that the drug is slowing down symptoms getting worse." Click here to go to read the full story This webinar by Pharmacist Amy Tran explains a lot about how Levodopa works and how your lifestyle, food etc can effect your syptoms and effectiveness of your medication. Click here to watch this presentation This presentation gives food for thought "Why I am optimistic that we might have a Silver Bullet for PD" an update by Dr. Sackner-Bernstein Click here to watch this presentation nosilverbullet4PD This is a Web site managed by Mark Limebear and Michel Planquart with the aim of sharing Parkinson's expertise. There mission is to help you and motivate you to become well-informed about your condition and to make the right choices on how to adapt your lifestyle to slow down disease progression. Click here to go to their Web Site Parkinson’s UK is investing £1.1m to co-fund a study looking at whether a cough medicine, ambroxol, has the potential to slow the progression of Parkinson’s. Click here for more information Click on the links in the list to read reports. . It will open in a new window. The 2024 research round up at Cure Parkinson UK January 2024 - Stem Cell research Roundup August 2022