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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

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