...which returned 23,900 results for me, the first of which was
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Alopecia and levodopa.
Alopecia and levodopa. A Marshall and M J Williams. Full text. Full text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version. ...
www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/ articlerender.fcgi?artid=1795918 - Similar pages
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The second result on the page of Google links led to this at
http://www.neurology.org/cgi/content/citation/58/5/829
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M. T. Grauer and J. P. Sieb
Alopecia induced by dopamine agonists
Neurology, December 24, 2002; 59(12): 2012 - 2012.
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Alopecia is a rare but important side effect of anti-parkinsonian medications. Our patient was a 72-year-old man with advanced Parkinson's disease (PD) who received levodopa and anti-cholinergic drugs and whose head had become almost completely bald. As bilateral subthalamic nucleus (STN) stimulation produced improvement in his motor symptoms, his drug dosages were reduced postoperatively. At 8 months after surgery, hair again covered his entire head. Our study presents a new aspect of the benefit of STN stimulation with regard to drug-induced non-motor symptoms in patient with PD
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Judith, there's tons of stuff out there on alopecia and levodopa/and/or/agonists, a lot of it in abstracts, but you can still find out a lot.
Then there's
http://www.amedeo.com/, which will send you a feed on abstracts of current articles on almost any medical condition you are interested in, for free. You get links to these at least a day before they come out in press.
And at
http://www.amedeogroup.com/ there is access to full journal articles after the journals are a year or two old, or in some cases less, notably
The New England Journal of Medicine, whose articles are free after six months. In browsing just now, I found one journal whose staff will help a patient see an article.
Have fun,
Jaye