A new study has revealed that the widely prescribed Parkinson's disease drug entacapone significantly disrupts the human gut microbiome by inducing iron deficiency. The findings, published in ...

Stalevo® is a combination of levodopa, carbidopa and entacapone. It was initially approved based on pharmacokinetic studies demonstrating bioequivalence with Sinemet® immediate release (IR ...

Expert Rev Neurother. 2009;9(7):929-940. Improvements in levodopa pharmacokinetics with the addition of entacapone were similar to that seen in healthy volunteers. In addition, Phase II trials ...