Compounds May Help in Treating Parkinson’s
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The antibiotic minocycline and the amino acid creatine may have some benefit in treating Parkinson’s disease, researchers reported at a Washington conference.
“We are not concluding that these agents are useful, just that they are not useless,” cautioned Dr. Karl Kieburtz of the University of Rochester, who led the study.
In a study of 200 patients in the earliest stages of the disease, those who took either of the compounds didn’t decline as rapidly as those given a placebo, he said. But Kieburtz emphasized that researchers must conduct a clinical trial before either could be recommended to patients.
