{"id":3612,"date":"2022-06-20T08:01:41","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T07:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/?p=3612"},"modified":"2022-06-20T08:01:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T07:01:41","slug":"update-from-parkinsons-uk-participants-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2022\/06\/20\/update-from-parkinsons-uk-participants-wanted\/","title":{"rendered":"Update from Parkinson&#8217;s UK: Participants wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Parkinson&#8217;s UK are calling on the Parkinson\u2019s community to take part in 5 important clinical studies that are currently at risk of closure.<\/p>\n<p>There are 5 Parkinson\u2019s UK-supported studies currently behind on their recruitment targets due to the coronavirus pandemic and at risk of closure. We are urging people from the Parkinson\u2019s community to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>Each trial is looking for people who meet specific criteria, for instance you may experience anxiety, falls, hallucinations or low mood. But it\u2019s not just people with Parkinson\u2019s who can take part. The AND-PD study, for example, is also looking for people who do not have the condition.<\/p>\n<p>In total, Parkinson\u2019s UK and other funders have invested several million pounds in these trials. If they have to close early, this will be wasted, and will delay the delivery of potentially life changing new treatments for Parkinson\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Find out more here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.parkinsons.org.uk\/news\/save-parkinsons-clinical-research-take-part-today\">Save Parkinson\u2019s clinical research. Take part today | Parkinson&#8217;s UK (parkinsons.org.uk)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parkinson&#8217;s UK are calling on the Parkinson\u2019s community to take part in 5 important clinical studies that are currently at risk of closure. There are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2022\/06\/20\/update-from-parkinsons-uk-participants-wanted\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[118123,229063],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76805"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3613,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions\/3613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}