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.