The third edition of the Parkinson Symposium organized by the German patient association Jung und Parkinson will take place in Saarlouis (Germany) on September 24.
On 1 September 2016, the Centre Hospitalier Emile Mayrisch (CHEM) has started its new initiative to support the Parkinson’s research of the National Centre of Excellence in Research on Parkinson’s Disease (NCER-PD).
200 years ago, a British surgeon named James Parkinson described for the first time the symptoms of a disease that was later named after him. Since then treatment and understanding of this disorder have improved thanks to the doctors and researchers’ work. But the diagnosis is still a complex process and always requires the opinion of an experienced neurologist. Why is it so difficult to pinpoint the disease?
Frank Michler, vice-chairman of the German patient organisation Jung und Parkinson, has interviewed the director of the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) as part of the JUP Talk series, video Q&A sessions addressing different aspects of Parkinson’s disease with professionals from various fields and patients.
Professor Bas Bloem and colleagues from the Radboud University Medical Centre in Nijmegen, the Netherland, visited Luxembourg on July 19 to present the concept of the Dutch ParkinsonNet that revolutionized the management of a chronic disease like Parkinson’s.