Multi-disciplinary approach to defeating Parkinson’s is key

Ahead of a conference on Parkinson’s disease, Dr Sean O’Sullivan emphasises the key role that support groups can play in the battle against the illness

In 1817, a 62-year-old London surgeon wrote a treatise that would become a medical classic: An Essay on the Shaking Palsy.

James Parkinson was the first to give a complete description of the condition that would later become known as Parkinson’s disease (PD).