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James Gamble

New Blood Test Could Diagnose Parkinson’s Disease Sooner

American scientists developed a test that focuses on damage to mitochondrial DNA in the blood linked with the neurological disease. PHOTO BY KAROLINA GRABOWSKA/PEXELS

A new blood test could be used to diagnose Parkinson’s before it begins to damage the nervous system.

Current diagnoses of Parkinson’s – the second most common neurological disease behind Alzheimer’s – is largely based on clinical symptoms after significant neurological damage has already occurred.

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