A new clue to the cause of Alzheimer's disease (brain disorder named for German physician Alois Alzheimer in 1906) seems to have been discovered by a team led by Dr. Ganesh M. Shankar and Dr. Dennis J. Selkoe of Harvard Medical School. Scientists...
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Rember, a new trial drug, is the biggest breakthrough for treating Alzheimer patients with declining memory. The UK scientists hail this achievement as the biggest ever in last 100 years. The drug is still on trial run. Nearly 321 patients with...
Although Alzheimer’s disease appears in old age but early signs of possibility of development of dementia in the future might appear in the middle age. According to researchers at Kaiser Permanente, people with large waistlines in the middle age are..
With increase in life expectancy incidence of memory impairment with advancement in age is rising rapidly. According to a team of researchers at the RAND Corporation and from prominent US Universities, more than a third of people in USA over...
Dementia can prove to be detrimental to your health. Forgetting basic tasks can be pretty bad. It seems like dementia hits the educated folks harder than less educated ones. This is because less educated folks with dementia manage to 'mask' the...
A simple blood test could soon be the best way to diagnose Alzheimer's disease and predict risks as early as six years before onset. In a study published on Sunday in the journal Nature Medicine, an international team of researchers describe 18...
With the gruesome estimation of over a million people with dementia by 2025, the Alzheimer's Society informs that the proportion of people with dementia doubles for every 5 year age group! Causing nearly 60,000 deaths a year, the disease lead UK the..
If you are suffering from high cholesterol levels and resort to the drug 'Statins' to keep it under control, then here is an additional good news for you - your drug can also prevent the brain damage that leads to Alzheimer's risk.
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Obesity epidemic is a bundle of diseases in itself. While briefings from the speech of Dr Colditz at the American Association for Cancer Research's international conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research, points out at rising levels of...
Ross Andel of the University of South Florida studied the cause and effect relationship between two pairs, in which one pair had dementia and the other didn't. The reason for the latter group being safe was because of the protective effect of complex...
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