{"id":9758,"date":"2017-03-21T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/fda-approves-drug-to-treat-parkinsons-disease\/"},"modified":"2017-03-21T11:20:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T19:20:00","slug":"fda-approves-drug-to-treat-parkinsons-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/fda-approves-drug-to-treat-parkinsons-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA approves drug to treat Parkinson\u2019s disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Xadago (safinamide) tablets as an add-on treatment for patients with Parkinson\u2019s disease who are currently taking levodopa\/carbidopa and experiencing \u201coff\u201d episodes. An \u201coff\u201d episode is a time when a patient\u2019s medications are not working well, causing an increase in Parkinson\u2019s symptoms, such as tremor and difficulty walking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Xadago (safinamide) tablets as an add-on treatment for patients with Parkinson\u2019s disease who are currently taking levodopa\/carbidopa and experiencing \u201coff\u201d episodes. An \u201coff\u201d episode is a time when a patient\u2019s medications are not working well, causing an increase in Parkinson\u2019s symptoms, such as tremor and difficulty walking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4,3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-reacalls-safety-notices-information","category-drug-safety-information-podcasts","category-food-drug-recalls","category-food-safety-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}