The Parkinson's Drug Trial: A Miracle Cure?

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Anyone watch this?

I'm almost finished.

So tense and shocking. Really risky
And to think half of them will be having a placebo

Quite emotional too

What Chanel is this on? I heard about it and really want to watch it.

Sorry to derail your thread!

BBC 2. I've just watched it on iplayer

I’m watching it now, My admin job is vaguely connected to this field of work so finding it very interesting how it’s all set up, also sorry for those that have to have the placebos

I was transfixed, what an amazing show, and what amazing contributors, patients and medics alike. Their stories all touched me, it was very emotional.

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And when they had the complications with the wobbly implants and the stroke and they thought that was it, their chance was over, I was gutted for them.

My father has Parkinsons so I was very interested to watch this. It made me feel quite emotional about the cruelty of this disease and also emotional at the hope this drug will give so many people. How thrilled that woman must have been to be able to smell her dog's farts! That's not something you expect to say every day

In the brief clip for next week's episode it said everyone would get the drug. I assumed they meant before that the people getting the placebo would get it all the way through.

I was shocked at the person at the beginning who said he could lie shaking for 7 hours sometimes. I think I knew less about Parkinson's than I thought

Really felt for the woman who said she felt like she was losing some of her husband and the one who cried when she said she felt like a carer for the first time

We watched it last night and I found it deeply distressing. My dh was diagnosed 5 years ago and is also in remission from stage 4 bowel cancer. He was very philosophical about it, said if he was offered he would go for it. It scared me watching it for what we both have to come. Awful. x

You have to have a placebo arm for a clinical trial. No choice.
But if real effectiveness is proven during the trial you can resubmit to the ethics committee to make changes.

Wow I wasn't expecting this outcome

Just watched this and so sad that the trial did not work. Tom and all the other participants were great.

Yes so brave all of them doing it

And so sad about Tom

Same here triplets

I really hope they can do a further trial on this.

It was very powerful documentary I think