by Bob Yirka , Medical Xpress Ball-and-stick model of the levodopa molecule, also known as L-DOPA, a non-standard amino acid. Credit: Jynto (talk)/Wikimedia Commons, CC 1.0 A team of researchers from the Cambridge Health Alliance and the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy has found that over-the-counter supplements that are advertised as containing extracts from Mucuna pruriens, a...
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Levodopa may improve vision in patients with macular degeneration
The widely used and well-tolerated drug commonly used to treat Parkinson’s disease may help significantly reduce the need for more costly, more invasive treatments, report investigators in The American Journal of Medicine ELSEVIER IMAGE: SPECTRAL DOMAIN ? OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY IMAGES OF THE SAME MACULAR SEGMENTATION LINE AT BASELINE AND MONTHLY FOLLOW-UP VISITS IN A...