{"id":218587,"date":"2025-07-24T00:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T05:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/feature-cough-medicine-shows-promise-in-treating-parkinsons-disease"},"modified":"2025-07-24T00:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T05:04:11","slug":"feature-cough-medicine-shows-promise-in-treating-parkinsons-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/feature-cough-medicine-shows-promise-in-treating-parkinsons-disease","title":{"rendered":"Feature: Cough medicine shows promise in treating Parkinson\u2019s disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/feature-cough-medicine-shows-promise-in-treating-parkinsons-disease2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An over-the-counter cough medicine may be the key to slowing the progression of Parkinson\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p>Called Ambroxol, the drug is commonly used to break up phlegm, but early studies have shown it can also prevent the build-up of misfolded clumps of protein in the brain, known as Lewy bodies \u2013 a hallmark of Parkinson\u2019s and other types of dementia.<\/p>\n<p>Robarts scientist Dr. Stephen Pasternak is leading a phase 2 clinical trial to further study Ambroxol\u2019s potential as a disease-modifying drug.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCurrent treatments for Parkinson\u2019s target the symptoms of the disease, such as movement, but don\u2019t change the long-term progression of pathology in the brain,\u201d he explained. \u201cWe hope Ambroxol will be a disease-changing drug.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Dr. Stephen Pasternak is leading a phase 2 clinical trial to study Ambroxol, an over-the-counter cough medicine, with the goal of slowing or stopping the progression of Parkinson\u2019s Disease Dementia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An over-the-counter cough medicine may be the key to slowing the progression of Parkinson\u2019s disease. Called Ambroxol, the drug is commonly used to break up phlegm, but early studies have shown it can also prevent the build-up of misfolded clumps of protein in the brain, known as Lewy bodies \u2013 a hallmark of Parkinson\u2019s and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}