The fight against Parkinson’s Disease is at the centre of a new book ‘Ending Parkinson’s Disease: A Prescription for Action’.

Co-authored by Ray Dorsey, professor of neurology and director of the center for human therapeutics at the University of Rochester Medical Center; Todd Sherer, chief executive officer of the Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research; Michael Okun, chair and professor of neurology at the University of Florida and Bastiaan Bloem, professor of neurology and director of centre of expertise for Parkinson and movement disorders at Radboud University Medical Centre in the Netherlands, the book is a call to action to prevent Parkinson’s and improve care and treatment. It also argues that Parkinson's is a man-made condition. Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a chronic, neurodegenerative disorder that impacts movement. There are treatments to relieve symptoms but there is no cure. EndingPD.org says PD is the fastest growing neurological disorder in the world and that between 1990 to 2015 the number of people diagnosed with PD doubled from 2.6 million to 6.3 million worldwide. Dr Dorsey says: “We have been far too quiet about the disability and death that brain diseases are causing. HIV activists adopted a motto of ‘Silence=Death’. For Parkinson’s and many brain diseases ‘Silence=Suffering’, needless and preventable suffering.