Patience

Patience: n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.(Ambrose Bierce)

The Cure Parkinson's Trust is delighted that the Exenatide (Exendin) study results have been published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. The study was funded by The Cure Parkinson's Trust and took place at UCL in London.

Tom Isaacs, Co-founder and President, The Cure Parkinson’s Trust, said:

"There are three exciting thing about these results:

1. If future and larger studies on this drug prove the outcome of this trial, then because of its status as a diabetes type 2 treatment, its use in Parkinson’s could be dramatically accelerated. It is possible that this therapy could be available to people with Parkinson’s within a matter of a few years.
   
2. These results suggest that the drug is safe and well tolerated by people with Parkinson’s and that it may have a beneficial effect on both motor and non-motor symptoms.
   
3. Scientific experts who have analysed these results say that the trial not only 'speak in favour of a disease-modifying effect' but also they recognise the nature and scale of this trial as a cost effective, quicker and more practical method of screening new molecules for use in Parkinson’s.

Things are looking up. I (we) just have to have patience and avoid the gloom of despair and the indifference that would follow.