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Skin Sensors Provide Wealth of Patient Data

Sensors on Parkinson’s patient record her every movement, including tremors, for 46 hours at a time.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Contributing Editor, Coatings World and Ink World

When her medications aren’t working, Bernadette Mroz says, “my world goes into a spin cycle. I cannot function mentally, emotionally, or physically.” Mroz, who has Parkinson’s disease, does not expect a cure in her lifetime. But she is hopeful that University of Rochester researchers will soon be able to “better tune in” the medications that help control her tremors and memory lapses. Toward that end, the Hannibal, New York, resident recently participated in a Rochester clinical trial in w...

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