The most potent drug available for Parkinson’s disease, levodopa, treats symptoms of the disease but does nothing to either ease or increase its still-mysterious underlying causes, a new clinical trial has concluded. Doctors often delay prescribing levodopa, or L-dopa, to Parkinson’s patients for fear that the drug might have toxic effects that produce jerky involuntary body movements over time. (January 23, 2019)
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