AAN: New Parkinson's Disease Treatment Guidelines Issued - CME Teaching Brief - MedPage Today
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SAN DIEGO, April 7 - New guidelines for the treatment of Parkinson's disease, issued by the American Academy of Neurology, are more proscriptive than prescriptive.
"We did not describe in what order useful drugs for the treatment of Parkinson's disease should be used," said William Weiner, M.D., of the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. "That still remains part of the art of medicine."
Yet the guidelines, released simultaneously in Neurology and at the AAN meeting here, were quite explicit about agents of neuroprotection -- drugs that can prevent or turn back the disease: There are none, the guidelines said.
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