Excerpt: “This is a very well done epidemiological study,” David Standaert, MD, PhD, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, told MedPage Today in an email. The finding that the risk of death from PD has not changed in 30 years in Minnesota’s Olmsted County is “worth noting,” said Standaert. “It suggests that while newer treatments may be improving the quality of life for PD patients, they are not making them live longer.”MedPage Today: “In major study, mortality among patients with PD was “only moderately increased compared with the general population”
Excerpt: “This is a very well done epidemiological study,” David Standaert, MD, PhD, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, told MedPage Today in an email. The finding that the risk of death from PD has not changed in 30 years in Minnesota’s Olmsted County is “worth noting,” said Standaert. “It suggests that while newer treatments may be improving the quality of life for PD patients, they are not making them live longer.”
They say that “what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.” But this is definitely not true of the vagus nerve, which wanders from the stomach to the brain, passing through the heart, esophagus and lungs along the way.
Todd Sherer, from the Michael J. Fox Foundation, authored a blog post on the Scientific American website in April. He writes: “Two centuries after its discovery, it’s still incurable—but research is accelerating, with major help from citizen scientists in the patient community.”
Here’s a very helpful article from yesterday’s 
On April 6, the New York Times reports that the FDA will allow 23andMe to sell genetic tests for disease risk to consumers.