News-Medical.Net August 17, 2025
The number of people living with Parkinson’s disease globally has doubled in the past 25 years.
Yet the treatment and monitoring of the neurological disease seems many decades behind. Clinicians typically gauge the severity of the disease using subjective rating scales, and a shortage of doctors trained to treat Parkinson’s means that people can go months – or years – between clinic visits.
This leaves patients in a troubling spot, often unsure how quickly their disease is progressing and whether they are responding appropriately to medications.
Now, Stanford Medicine researchers have developed a simple, portable device paired with a smartphone-connected platform that patients can use at home to measure the severity of their Parkinson’s disease symptoms in a quantitative and...
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