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The Parkinson鈥檚 Drug Trial: A Miracle Cure?
Filmed over six years, 42 people with Parkinson鈥檚 take part in a groundbreaking medical trial. Can the results give hope to 10 million Parkinson鈥檚 sufferers worldwide?
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Phone: 0808 800 0303 (Monday-Friday: 9am-7pm, Saturday: 10am-2pm)Tom鈥檚 story
Trial volunteer Tom Isaacs was the co-founder of the听. Very sadly, Tom died during the making of the series.
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Trial scientific papers
The scientific findings from the GDNF trial have been published in two peer-reviewed scientific journals.
The main part of the trial is published in 鈥淏rain":
The extension study (the second 9 months of the trial during which everyone received the drug GDNF) is published in the Journal of Parkinson鈥檚 Disease:
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