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Creating a world without Parkinson’s 200 years after 'An Essay on the Shaking Palsy'

Creating a world without Parkinson’s 200 years after ‘An Essay on the Shaking Palsy’

By Mark Staniland on 13 Apr 2017

This year, we mark 200 years since James Parkinson published his famous monograph, An Essay on the Shaking Palsy. In that time, we have reached many key milestones in science that have dramatically improved the lives of the ten million people worldwide who live with Parkinson’s.  Yet we still have nothing to slow the disease and nothing to stop it.  Read more

Posted in Research funding | Tagged funding, health, Parkinson's Foundation, parkinsons, research

Honoured for his services to medicine.

Nature Partner Journal Editor honoured in Queen’s Birthday Honours List

By Alex Jackson on 16 Jun 2014

Professor Aziz Sheikh, the Joint Editor-in-Chief of the new Nature Partner Journal, npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, has been awarded an OBE for services to medicine in the Birthday Honours list.  Read more

Posted in Events, Featured, Uncategorized | Tagged #awards, health, medicine, npj

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