ALERT: Man with parkinsons screams at a woman for driving into his lawn during a storm that flooded the street. During tornadoes and heavy rainfall throughout Southwest Michigan, a woman drove her car onto the sidewalks and through lawns to avoid flooded streets. One homeowner, who doesn't want to be identified, says he believed his sprinkler system would have been damaged and ran out to stop the woman. "I have Parkinson’s disease," the homeowner said. "When I get upset, I start shaking, hard to concentrate and communicating with people. I get agitated easily, and it’s all part of the disease, and her driving down the sidewalk like that did not help the situation."

.@ZachLahn: "Paraquat is used in laboratory settings to induce Parkinsons in rats and mice... It's currently used on hundreds of thousands of acres in Iowa. It's made by a Chinese company, but the Chinese government bans the use of it in their own country... Farmers are ready for products like that to be off the market."

FDA accelerates development of XellSmart’s off-the-shelf Parkinson’s therapy, raising questions about the direction of regenerative medicine. #longevity# #geroscience# #parkinsons# #regenerativemedicine# #celltherapy#

A Danish biotech’s $12 million payment for AlzeCure’s drug platform could reshape the treatment of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. #longevity# #geroscience# #alzheimers# #parkinsons# #biotech#

A simple drawing test may detect Parkinson’s disease with up to 99% accuracy. Researchers found that subtle differences in how people draw can reveal motor impairments long before they are obvious to the human eye.