{"id":250625,"date":"2026-04-29T04:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T04:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/250625\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T04:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T04:02:11","slug":"florida-parkinsons-registry-aims-to-improve-care-for-nearly-80000-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/250625\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Parkinson\u2019s registry aims to improve care for nearly 80,000 residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV\/Gray Florida Capital Bureau) &#8211; A new law will help researchers better understand Parkinson\u2019s Disease across Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The state created the Parkinson\u2019s registry earlier this year. It requires doctors to report certain information to the Parkinson\u2019s disease registry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Parkinson\u2019s Association says Florida has one of the highest prevalence of Parkinson\u2019s disease in the country, with nearly 80,000 people living with the disease. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Parkinson\u2019s Foundation says having this registry helps better understand where people with Parkinson\u2019s are and could better tailor care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-center\">Florida Politics:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWhat the registry is about is information, you know, helping to better understand how many people in the state have Parkinson\u2019s, where those people live, so that we can identify any patterns or see where there might be more services needed in the state,\u201d said Deborah Swerdlow, The Parkinson\u2019s Foundation\u2019s Vice President of Advocacy and State Policy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Swerdlow says she would like to see lawmakers also continue to fund Parkinson\u2019s research. They\u2019ll decide that during a special session next month.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV\/Gray Florida Capital Bureau) &#8211; A new law will help researchers better understand Parkinson\u2019s Disease across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1442,28,2161,571,109659,99,232,234,233],"class_list":["post-250625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-cody-butler","tag-florida","tag-government","tag-health","tag-parkinsons","tag-politics","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}