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Getting Closer!, Its National News!

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"For a typical Parkinson's patient, "you would expect every year to get two to three points worse," says Dr. Lorenz Studer, who directs the Center for Stem Cell Biology at the Sloan Kettering Institute in New York and is a scientific adviser to BlueRock.

Participants in Studer's study had a very different experience: "The high-dose group, they got about 20 points better.""

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Fingers crossed that stem cell treatment is recognized as a significant way forward for PD... This is still a few years away from approval. Unofficial stem cell treatment centers are available now for the adventurous PwPD though!

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