FDA approves a new treatment for Parkinson's symptoms that may come with fewer side effects.
My coverage in Being Patient: beingpatient.com/fda-approves...
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FDA Approves Once Daily Parkinson’s Pill for Treating Symptoms
AbbVie’s Juvmo will be available in October as a standalone or add-on therapy for treating Parkinson’s motor symptoms.
![Then it shifts to patient blaming. At around 5:26, host Ian Hanomansing cued up a question about the legitimacy of brain retraining, which is criticized by most in the patient community.
“I think there can be a tendency to double down on your ‘I am really sick’ and ‘I am really having these symptoms’ and maybe get [sic] develop some kind of reluctance or resistance to having an open mind to what else might work best,” Deacon responded. She followed up the patient-blaming rhetoric by saying she doesn’t judge people for how they handle the disease.
This rhetoric is common tactic in alternative medicine where patients are blamed for not benefiting for a treatment because they aren’t trying hard enough or aren’t open-minded enough. The same rhetoric wouldn’t fly for cancer, multiple sclerosis, or other disease so but it appears acceptable for Long COVID. Are the journalistic standards more flexible when the person being interviewed is a former colleague or when they’re trying to sell a book?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:urwemz7ofbk2oz5ridp42aw4/bafkreibkbpjfkdwbszwf47yovkucyy5c2msofc2ewb3uox2wuuy6eubcuq)
