While patients initially start taking oral drugs like levodopa and carbidopa ... The latter is administered as a continuous infusion using a portable pump, via a percutaneous jejunostomy tube ...

A wearable drug pump that delivers medication to Parkinson’s patients 24 hours a day to better manage their symptoms is being rolled out on the NHS later this month. The treatment option means ...

The drugs work by helping ... treatment that involves wearing a portable kit 24 hours day. NHS England is to roll out the treatment, Produodopa, which uses a pump to steadily release medicine ...