A progressive neurological disorder affecting 10 million people globally, Parkinson’s can cause disruptive symptoms such as ...

Researchers at Northwestern Medicine have discovered that a virus that has flown under the radar for years might be a ...

July 9 (UPI) -- A common virus once thought harmless to humans might be linked to Parkinson's disease, a new study says. The ...

Groundbreaking new research released from Northwestern Medicine discovered that a usually harmless virus in the blood, may be ...

Researchers have detected a common, previously considered harmless virus, Human Pegivirus (HPgV), in the brains of ...

New research has suggested that a virus that has typically been thought of as common and harmless may actually be associnrwd with an in creased risk of Par | Cell And Molecular Biology ...

Researchers in Chicago believe they’ve found a virus that could be a trigger for Parkinson’s disease. Parkinson’s impacts ...

Future research will also seek to determine how common HPgV actually is in Parkinson's patients, and whether it indeed plays a role in the disease.

Human Pegivirus may be environmental trigger for Parkinson’s disease Northwestern Medicine find HPgV in brain samples of people with Parkinson's, not in those without ...

HPgV is a blood-borne virus in the same family as hepatitis C. Only about 1% of Parkinson's patients had HPgV in their blood samples, researchers found.