{"id":91612,"date":"2019-06-04T09:22:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T16:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/world-first-pill-may-stop-parkinsons"},"modified":"2019-06-04T09:22:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T16:22:55","slug":"world-first-pill-may-stop-parkinsons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/world-first-pill-may-stop-parkinsons","title":{"rendered":"World-first pill may stop Parkinson\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kL5fIhejxxE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A new therapy that appears to stop Parkinson\u2019s disease \u201cin its tracks\u201d will begin phase-one clinical trials in humans next year.<\/p>\n<p>The therapy, developed by researchers at the University of Queensland \u2013 and partly under-written by the Michael J Fox Foundation \u2013 is a world first because it stops the death of brain cells in Parkinson\u2019s sufferers rather than managing symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>If human trials echo the stunning results in animal testing, the inflammation of the brain that causes so much of the progressive damage in Parkinson\u2019s disease (PD) could be halted by taking a single pill each day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenewdaily.com.au\/life\/wellbeing\/2018\/11\/08\/michael-j-fox-parkinsons-therapy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new therapy that appears to stop Parkinson\u2019s disease \u201cin its tracks\u201d will begin phase-one clinical trials in humans next year. The therapy, developed by researchers at the University of Queensland \u2013 and partly under-written by the Michael J Fox Foundation \u2013 is a world first because it stops the death of brain cells in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91612","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\/91612","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}