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Daniel Barenboim, the eminent conductor and pianist who recently stepped back from engagements citing health concerns, said Thursday that he has Parkinson’s disease. Announcing the diagnosis in a short news release, Barenboim, 82, said that he still planned to fulfill “as many of my professional commitments as possible,” including concerts with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra,…
The idea was so tantalizing. Drugs in the GLP-1 class, which includes Wegovy and Ozempic, have proved miraculous in treating weight loss and other diseases. And some researchers hoped that the drugs could also help with some of the most difficult diseases to treat — those of the brain, like Parkinson’s. But now, at least…
Environmental factors like prolonged stress, chronic inflammation and toxic exposure could play a key role in triggering Parkinson’s disease, even in people without genetic risk, a Canadian study has found. A team from McGill University in Montreal published a paper last month in Nature Neuroscience that may have uncovered a new link between the immune system and…
