How to Use levodopa in a Sentence

levodopa

noun
  • Standard treatments like carbidopa/levodopa may take longer to kick in or feel less effective when GI issues are in play.
    — Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 1 May 2026
  • Standard treatments like carbidopa/levodopa may take longer to kick in or feel less effective when GI issues are in play.
    — Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 6 May 2026
  • Previous studies had shown that the treatment improved symptoms but wasn’t more effective than the medication levodopa.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The health care provider would then diagnose a player with Parkinson’s and, usually, issue a prescription for levodopa, a medicine that treats Parkinson’s by masking or suppressing symptoms.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 10 June 2026
  • This time, Sun sought to reassure the FDA about the production of a generic drug, carbidopa and levodopa, used to treat tremors and other effects of Parkinson’s disease.
    — Megan Rose, ProPublica, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Vitamin B6 Taking vitamin B6 with levodopa, a medication for Parkinson’s disease, can reduce the medication’s effectiveness.
    — Alyssa Hui-Anderson, Verywell Health, 25 Nov. 2025
  • The researchers also found that existing treatments for Parkinson’s, including the medication levodopa (also known as L-DOPA), as well as brain stimulation, decreased the circuit’s connectivity, making the brains of people with the condition look more like those of healthy people.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 4 Feb. 2026

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