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ReviewJournal of Parkinson's disease2026

Can regulators have a role in facilitating the development of new medicines for Parkinson's disease?

Mário Miguel Rosa, Ewa Balkowiec-Iskra

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Review in Journal of Parkinson's disease, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Mário Miguel RosaLisbon Medical School, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0003-3158-2106
Ewa Balkowiec-IskraScientific Advice Working Party, EMA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-8882-9769

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most frequent neurodegenerative disorder, and its prevalence has doubled in the past 25 years. New formulations of levodopa have recently been marketed that improved the ability to treat PD, but in the European Union, no new active substance for PD has been marketed since 2015, whilst two new agents have been marketed elsewhere. In spite of being the most treatable neurodegenerative disorder, several unmet medical needs still exists in PD, and efforts both from researchers, drug developers and regulators are needed to facilitate further developments in the field. There are several reasons that may account for the lack of new treatments for PD. Regulatory agencies provide scientific advice and have developed several programs to foster drug development. This manuscript discusses the main obstacles identified in the development process, the present status of approvals in European Union and the United States, and the presently available mechanisms to optimize drug development and marketing.

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Antiparkinson AgentsDrug ApprovalDrug DevelopmentParkinson DiseaseEuropean UnionHumansUnited StatesAntiparkinson Agentsapproval of new drugsmarketing approvalneuropharmacologyParkinson's diseaseregulatory authoritiesregulatory science

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PMID40770929
PMCPMC13435157

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