mPOWER – the new app for Parkinson’s patients

In the RTL “Pisa – De Wëssensmagazin” broadcast of 29 November 2015 on the topic “Big Data”, Prof. Dr. Rejko Krüger introduced the new mPOWER app for mobile phones, which has been recently developed by Sage Bionetworks in the US.

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First Consortium Meeting of the NCER-PD

On Monday, 9 November 2015, the first formal consortium meeting of the National Centre of Excellence in Research on Parkinson’s disease (NCER-PD) took place at the Maison du Savoir in Esch-Belval.

Special suit shows how Parkinson’s disease feels

If you read about Parkinson’s disease (PD), you will quickly hear about typical symptom such as muscle stiffness and tremor. But how does that feel?

The 100th NCER-PD Patient

In October, the NCER-PD team has reached 100 participants in the Luxembourg Parkinson study.

How to best treat patients with advanced stages of Parkinson’s disease

Parkinson’s disease is a disorder that generally progresses over the course of the years. Particularly, for patients at advanced stages of the disease where treatment options had previously been limited new therapies have emerged on the market in recent years.