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Parkinson's disease

By Jonah Comstock | 04:50 pm | November 15, 2018
The Belgian pharma company worked with Verint Systems to create the PD Coach app.
By Dave Muoio | 04:35 pm | November 06, 2018
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By Leontina Postelnicu | 08:15 am | October 08, 2018
UK-headquartered health tech company Medopad teams up with Chinese tech giant Tencent and the Parkinson's Centre of Excellence at King's College Hospital in London to speed up diagnosis of Parkinson's disease. 
By Dave Muoio | 12:51 pm | April 27, 2018
Good omens for Good Doctor.
By Dave Muoio | 03:57 pm | April 11, 2018
Melbourne, Australia-based Global Kinetics Corporation, maker of a wearable Parkinson’s disease monitor, has received a $7.
By Mike Miliard | 02:28 pm | April 11, 2018
Engineering students at Rice University have created a new iPhone app they say could help patients with Parkinson's manage a symptom of the disease called "freezing," a temporary and involuntary inability to move when the legs are unable to follow the brain's command.
By Laura Lovett | 04:05 pm | April 09, 2018
Capturing a patient’s experience outside the doctor’s office has been an ongoing struggle when it comes to treating Parkinson’s disease.
By Heather Mack | 04:27 pm | January 19, 2017
People with Parkinson’s disease who used an app to track and manage symptom improved their medication adherence and had better conversations with clinicians about their condition, according to the results of a recent National Health Services study published in the journal Nature Parkinson’s.
By Jonah Comstock | 03:44 pm | January 05, 2017
Cambridge-based MC10, which makes paper-thin adhesive health sensors, and Belgium-based pharma company UCB have completed the Parkinson's study they began in 2014 and are aiming to publish the results later this year, the two companies announced.
By Jonah Comstock | 12:40 pm | August 13, 2015
Roche Pharma Research and Early Development, a division of Roche Pharmaceuticals, has developed a new mobile app to measure Parkinson's disease symptoms.