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Yih-Ru Wu & Han-Lin Chiang
Yih-Ru Wu is an attending Physician of Neurology Department at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and a professor of Chang-Gung University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan. She was the past president of Taiwan Movement Disorder Society from 2015 to 2017. She serves as an executive committee member of Asian and Oceanian Section - Movement Disorder Society. Currently, she is the section editor of BMC Neurology and on the editorial board of Parkinsonism and Related Disorders.
Han Lin is currently an attending neurologist in Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital. She is specialized in movement disorders and was trained in Westmead Hospital, Movement Disorders Unit, Sydney, Australia between 2014-2015 as a clinical fellow.
Han Lin is currently an attending neurologist in Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital. She is specialized in movement disorders and was trained in Westmead Hospital, Movement Disorders Unit, Sydney, Australia between 2014-2015 as a clinical fellow.
Advances in Parkinson’s Disease Treatment
In honor of Parkinson's Awareness Week, we are sharing the new and exciting discoveries in Parkinson's disease treatment. Drs. Han-Lin Chiang and Yih-Ru Wu, leaders in Parkinson's disease research, discuss some of the most promising advancements in the treatment of Parkinson's disease.
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It has been 200 years since Dr. James Parkinson published the An Essay On the Shaking Palsy describing the signs and symptoms of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Despite the fact that there are lots of treatment options out there to ameliorate the patient’s symptoms and to improve their quality of life, we still don’t have any neuroprotective or disease-modifying therapy to slow down disease progression. But for patients with PD, the past few years have never been so hopeful in that new candidate therapies are being developed at a very fast pace.
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