"News of a potential blood test gives early diagnosis hope for Parkinson's" (RLS research needed?)

[ChrisColumbus]

Researchers have developed a blood test to predict patients who would 'develop Parkinson’s - up to seven years before symptoms began'.

Could similar research bring potential benefits for RLS?

'The markers were directly linked to inflammation and degradation of proteins and could be used to develop new drug treatments for Parkinson's, they (researchers) said.'

“At present we are shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted," senior author Prof Kevin Mills, from UCL's Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, said. "We need to start experimental treatments before patients develop symptoms."

'Prof Ray Chaudhuri, professor of movement disorders and neurology, at King’s College Hospital and King’s College London, said blood tests for Parkinson's diagnosis and prediction were "a massive unmet need" - but questioned whether the move was ethical given there was no cure." '

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c72...

nature.com/articles/s41467-...

[Madlegs1]

Thanks.👍

[Elisse3]

I saw that on the news this morning. 😊

[ChrisColumbus in reply to Elisse3]

Prof Chaudhuri, sometimes of this parish, seems unsure that predicting diagnosis is ethical as there is "no cure". 'Abandon hope all ye who enter here'? Perhaps he's been quoted out of context...

[Elisse3 in reply to ChrisColumbus]

If he did say that my reply to him would be so we stop all research to all who suffer any condition like PD. I would have thought early detection would mean early medications to slow the condition so no cure yet, research can lead to other research and so on which could lead to a cure. Wonder what his thoughts on research for RLS. which has no cure…yet. Actually i would rather not know his views my reply would be unprintable 🤔