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New digital health technologies could lead to better care for Parkinson’s disease The use of digital health technologies across health care and drug development has accelerated. A new paper titled "Digital Progression Biomarkers as Novel Endpoints in Clinical Trials: A Multistakeholder Perspective," co-authored by experts across diverse disciplines, highlights how new remote monitoring technologies present a tremendous opportunity to advance digital medicine in health care even further, specifically in Parkinson's disease. This perspective paper is co-authored by the academic leader of the ...

A nose-on-chip platform to detect the characteristic smell linked to Parkinson’s disease (PD) is being further developed thanks to a $670,000 grant from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. Scientists from Yesse Technologies Inc recently validated the presence of a distinctive smell, arising from an oily skin secretion called sebum, in patients diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. The previous identification of a specific subset of odorant receptors, the proteins in the nose that detect smells, forms the foundation for further development of a lab-based smell test to d...