Sharon Labchuck, Green Party Canada

Government is subsidizing preventable causes of the disease

The Green Party of PEI says “the recent front page headline “Finding a Cure” in the Guardian, about a biotechnology corporation’s quest to produce a marketable cure for Parkinson’s disease, is a sad and disturbing commentary on the state of health care in Prince Edward Island.”

An Island-based bioscience company is working on groundbreaking research in finding a cure for Parkinson’s disease and has received key support this week from the Michael J. Fox Foundation to help further its work.
Neurodyn Inc. has been studying the effects of the neuron-preserving protein Progranulin for a number of years now and through a series of tests on mice, has discovered that it can slow down the evolution of Parkinson’s. Charlottetown Guardian Continue reading →