WASHINGTON, D.C.: Early diagnosis and treatment is critical for patients with Parkinson’s disease, because once the nervous system disorder starts destroying neurons they are gone forever.
Yet a patient has only a 50 per cent chance of being correctly diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease on his or her first visit to a neurologist.
The head of the Division of Pathology at St. Michael’s Hospital is part of an international research project trying to determine which emerging medical test would most accurately diagnose Parkinson’s at an early stage. The work is funded in part by the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research…