Air pollution was at toxic levels in nineteenth century London when James Parkinson, whose 269th birthday is celebrated today, first described the condition. The nose and the gut are lined with a ...

Approximately 10 million people worldwide suffer from Parkinson's, a condition named after Dr. James Parkinson. Michael J. Fox remains a strong advocate for finding a cure for this disease of the ...

It is named after the English doctor James Parkinson, who published the first detailed description of the condition, An Essay on the Shaking Palsy, in 1817. Parkinson’s begins with abnormal ...

1 Pain and discomfort have long been noted to occur in PD. James Parkinson wrote in his famous monograph 2 that painful symptoms can be the first signs of impairment, describing a man who was ...