A potential breakthrough in techniques to develop drugs to treat diseases as diverse as cancer and Alzheimer’s has been reported by chemists at the University of Leicester in the UK. T... Read more
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have discovered a new drug compound that reverses the brain deficits of Alzheimer’s disease in an animal model. Their findings are published in t... Read more
Currently, no cure exists for Alzheimer’s disease, the devastating neurological disease affecting more than 5 million Americans. But scientists are now reporting new progress on a set of com... Read more
A Montreal team of researchers has found a genetic variant that protects against and delays the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. The study revealed that certain natural and frequent genetic var... Read more
Preliminary results show the device, created at Cedars-Sinai and developed by NeuroVision Imaging, may provide highly predictive early detection of changes associated with Alzheimer’s... Read more
Analysis of clinical trials shows pipeline for therapeutics is small; 99.6 percent of drug attempts fail Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health have conducted t... Read more
A huge international medical trial could be a gamechanger for millions of people at risk of getting Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers at 60 sites in the United States, Canada and Austra... Read more
Mechanism uncovered could also help preserve neuron function in Alzheimer’s disease, traumatic brain injury and other neurodegenerative conditions Research presented by Dr. Lynn Raymon... Read more
A blood test has the potential to predict Alzheimer’s disease before patients start showing symptoms In March of this year, a team of Georgetown University scientists published research show... Read more
Alzheimer’s disease, the primary cause of dementia in the elderly, imposes a tremendous social and economic burden on modern society. In Japan, the burden of the disease in 2050 is es... Read more
The world population is rapidly ageing, which means the number of disabled and dependent people is increasing since these rates increase with age, particularly after the age of 80 The world... Read more
Study Shows Benefit in Activities of Daily Living and Savings in Caregiver Time with Vitamin E Difficulty with activities of daily living often affect Alzheimer’s patients, which is es... Read more
Intranasal stem cell therapy may one day treat brain disorders Many diseases of the central nervous system involve the death of neurons—so, theoretically, the replacement of dead cells shoul... Read more
New approaches to some of the most serious unmet health challenges of our time An ingredient in a medicinal tea brewed from tree bark by tribal healers on the South Pacific island of Samoa —... Read more
Study points to possible treatments and confirms distinction between memory loss due to aging and that of Alzheimer’s A team of Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers, l... Read more
