Ready or not, it is spring, and time for more articles on MPDN.
This time we include an interview with Maine retired physician Dr. Conner Moore regarding his experience with the DUOPA pump. He very thoughtfully went over his observations on various issues related to choices of treatment with advancing PD, and a few of the ins and outs of using the pump as a patient himself. In that article, Dr. Michael Kleinman of MMP Neurology also gave comment on DUOPA.
As so many of you have raised questions about the topic, we will discuss the drug approval process in the U.S. It is a little complicated, and hopefully that brief article will shed some light and segue into the area of drugs in the development pipeline for Parkinson disease (PD). Regardless of the decision of a certain giant pharmaceutical company to withdraw from PD research, there is a huge amount of work going on worldwide to bring new drugs and therapies to treat PD. The articles included here will be part of an ongoing series on the topic. We will also take an updated look at focused ultrasound (FUS) for PD.
Finally, MPDN is seeing more email subscribers all over the state, and we have now reached 12,000 site visits since we started in April, 2016. We are glad this resource is useful.
