Researchers at Northwestern Medicine have discovered that a virus that has flown under the radar for years might be a ...

A progressive neurological disorder affecting 10 million people globally, Parkinson’s can cause disruptive symptoms such as tremors, immobility and loss of balance. Now, scientists at Northwestern ...

July 9 (UPI) -- A common virus once thought harmless to humans might be linked to Parkinson's disease, a new study says. The ...

Researchers have detected a common, previously considered harmless virus, Human Pegivirus (HPgV), in the brains of ...

Groundbreaking new research released from Northwestern Medicine discovered that a usually harmless virus in the blood, may be ...

Parkinson's disease is a neurogenerative disease that affects more than 1 million people in the U.S. While some cases are ...

Researchers in Chicago believe they’ve found a virus that could be a trigger for Parkinson’s disease. Parkinson’s impacts ...

New research has suggested that a virus that has typically been thought of as common and harmless may actually be associnrwd with an in creased risk of Par | Cell And Molecular Biology ...

Hepatitis G is the former name for human pegivirus 1 (HPgV-1). It is typically transmitted through blood. Avoiding contact with blood products with the virus can help prevent it from transferring.

Human Pegivirus may be environmental trigger for Parkinson’s disease Northwestern Medicine find HPgV in brain samples of people with Parkinson's, not in those without ...

HPgV is a blood-borne virus in the same family as hepatitis C. Only about 1% of Parkinson’s patients had HPgV in their blood samples, researchers found.

A common virus once thought harmless to humans might be linked to Parkinson's disease, a new study says. The germ, Human Pegivirus (HPgV), was found in half the autopsied brains of patients with ...