Crunching Medicare Data Could Be The Key To Predicting Parkinson’s Disease — And Many Other Diseases Could Be Next

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Crunching Medicare Data Could Be The Key To Predicting Parkinson’s Disease — And Many Other Diseases Could Be Next

People with Parkinson’s disease, a debilitating movement disorder, exhibit symptoms like tremors and limb stiffness that get progressively more drastic as the condition worsens. But before a patient’s symptoms become pronounced, doctors have no reliable way to recognize Parkinson’s early on, or identify that a patient is on track to develop the disease.