Parkinson's paradox, linking current smoking to lower disease risk but linking quitting to lower all-cause mortality.

Adults who quit smoking had a heightened risk for Parkinson’s disease vs. those who continued to smoke, according to results published in Neurology.However, those reporting quitting had a reduced risk ...

For decades, scientists have known that a misbehaving protein sits at the heart of Parkinson’s disease, yet the precise chain of events that turns that protein into brain cell death has remained ...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly inventing new drugs for diseases from Parkinson's disease and antibiotic-resistant superbugs to rare lung conditions.