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Declares April 2024 as Parkinson's Awareness Month in California

Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease in the United States and the fastest growing, with an estimated 90,000 new diagnoses annually in North America

Over 120,000 people in California have Parkinson's disease, costing the state $5.8 billion annually in direct and indirect health care costs

California's Parkinson's Disease Registry, expanded to the California Neurodegenerative Disease Registry, has collected hundreds of thousands of electronic records from over 500 reporting entities to improve treatment understanding

In April 2023, the Michael J. Fox Foundation announced validation of the first-ever biomarker for Parkinson's disease, enabling objective detection of abnormal proteins in living individuals