New Parkinson's Disease Treatment Guidelines Issued
AAN: New Parkinson's Disease Treatment Guidelines Issued - CME Teaching Brief - MedPage Today: "Doctors should explain to patients that new guidelines found no 'neuroprotective' therapies to have any value.
Note that the guidelines leave to the art of medicine decisions such as the order of the selection of drugs for treatment.
Doctors should screen all Parkinson's patients for depression.
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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.' "
Note that the guidelines leave to the art of medicine decisions such as the order of the selection of drugs for treatment.
Doctors should screen all Parkinson's patients for depression.
Review
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.' "
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