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A fast, simple and non invasive test of the ability to smell may be an important tool to screen people who are likely to develop Parkinson's disease (PD), in which motor symptoms only become evident at a later stage of the disease, a German scientist will tell the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics today (Saturday). Dr. Silke Nuber, from the Department of Medical Genetics, University of Tübingen, Germany, will say that her team's research could help in the development of treatments for the early stages of the disease.

When John Crossley-Stanbury noticed a tremor in his little finger he ignored it.
At 19 he was a fit young man and he assumed the problem was simply a trapped nerve.
Two years later he went to see his GP who referred him to a neurologist. He got reassuring news. The specialist was convinced there was a benign reason for his problem.
But two years later, after a barrage of tests, he was told that he had Parkinson's Disease - an incurable and progressive neurological condition.

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Although the year is young, it has already brought my first moral dilemma. In early January a friend mentioned that his New Year's resolution was to beat his chronic depression once and for all. Over the years he had tried a medicine chest's worth of antidepressants, but none had really helped in any enduring way, and when the side effects became so unpleasant that he stopped taking them, the withdrawal symptoms (cramps, dizziness, headaches) were torture. Did I know of any research that might help him decide whether a new antidepressant his doctor recommended might finally lift his chronic darkness at noon?

For more than a decade, Hepatitis C infection rates have been decreasing, but due to a slip in our collective focus, the rates have had a chance to increase in some first world countries for the last few years. When combined with the health problems of those who have had untreated Hepatitis for decades, our ignorance is costing us.