Artificial sweetener a potential treatment for Parkinson's disease

Monday, June 17, 2013 - 12:30 in Health & Medicine

Mannitol is widely used as an artificial sweetener in gum and candy, and, with FDA sanction, is also used as a diuretic. Now medical researchers have found that mannitol could also be a novel therapy for the treatment of Parkinson's and other neurodegenerative diseases.

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