New Treatments For Parkinson'S Disease 2024. Parkinson's disease affects about 10 million people around the world. Northwestern medicine scientists have uncovered a new mechanism by which mutations in a gene parkin contribute to familial forms of parkinson's disease.

Right now, the main treatment available to patients is levodopa, a therapy which attempts to relieve tremors and other motor symptoms by boosting dopamine levels in the brain. It was approved last year by the national.