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 ...

A new UCLA Health study suggests that long-term exposure to the pesticide chlorpyrifos may dramatically raise the risk of Parkinson’s disease. Researchers found that people living in areas with ...

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 ...

Where drinking water comes from and what it contains may affect Parkinson's disease risk, a recent study suggests.