BACK TO BASICS: STRIVING TO STALL PARKINSON'S DISEASE

摘要

First described 200 gears ago, Parkinson's disease remains without a cure. A new generation of treatment ideas are now in clinical trials, some of which aim to stall progression of the disease. For seven years, 51-year-old Alison Ottaway managed to hide her Parkin son's disease (PD). A low dose of levo-dopa, a drug that resupplies the brain with dopamine, which dwindles in the disease, kept her 'cracking on [with] life as normal,' says Ottaway. who lives in Haslemere. Surrey. This meant working long hours in her busy career as an events planner.