News related to Aricept (Donepezil) and/or conditions it is approved for
ARICEPT (Donepezil) effective for severe Alzheimer's disease
Source: The Doctors Lounge - Neurology
Donepezil reverses some aspects of cognitive deterioration seen in severe Alzheimer's disease.
Reduced Risk Of Heart Attacks For Patients On Alzheimer's Disease Drugs
Source: Cardiovascular / Cardiology News From Medical News Today [2013.06.06]
Drugs that are used for treating Alzheimer's disease in its early stages are linked to a reduced risk of heart attacks and death, according to a large study of over 7,000 people with Alzheimer's disease in Sweden...
Researchers Closer To A Blood Test For Alzheimer's Disease
Source: Medical Devices / Diagnostics News From Medical News Today [2013.06.05]
Alzheimer researchers in Spain have taken a step closer to finding a blood test to help in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. With approximately 75% of the estimated 36 million Alzheimer's sufferers worldwide yet to receive a reliable diagnosis, the potential impact on the lives of possible sufferers, present and future, could be huge...
Incurable Neurological Disorder HDLS Often Incorrectly Diagnosed As Alzheimer's Disease, MS Or Parkinson's Disease
Source: Multiple Sclerosis News From Medical News Today [2013.04.13]
The very serious hereditary disease HDLS was discovered in 1984 in Sweden. Many HDLS patients are still incorrectly diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, MS or Parkinson's disease, but researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have now developed a more certain diagnosis method - and are seeking to find a treatment for the "unknown" neurological disorder...
Molecular System Identified That Could Help Develop Treatments For Alzheimer's Disease
Source: CJD / vCJD / Mad Cow Disease News From Medical News Today [2013.02.25]
Scientists from the University of Southampton have identified the molecular system that contributes to the harmful inflammatory reaction in the brain during neurodegenerative diseases. An important aspect of chronic neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's or prion disease, is the generation of an innate inflammatory reaction within the brain...
Alzheimer's Disease - Test Your Medical IQ
Source: MedicineNet donepezil Specialty [2012.02.07]
Title: Alzheimer's Disease - Test Your Medical IQ
Category: MedicineNet Quiz
Created: 2/2/2012 5:35:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 2/7/2012 2:00:43 PM
Alzheimer's Disease
Source: MedicineNet Advance Medical Directives Specialty [2010.07.27]
Title: Alzheimer's Disease
Category: Diseases and Conditions
Created: 8/26/2008 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 7/27/2010 12:00:00 AM
Alzheimer's Disease Patient Caregiver Guide
Source: MedicineNet galantamine Specialty [2010.07.27]
Title: Alzheimer's Disease Patient Caregiver Guide
Category: Diseases and Conditions
Created: 8/26/2008 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 7/27/2010 12:00:00 AM
Alzheimer's Drugs Linked to Lower Risk for MI, Death
Source: Medscape NeurologyHeadlines [2013.06.13]
The mechanism by which cholinesterase inhibitors reduce risk for myocardial infarction and death in patients with Alzheimer's disease could be through reduced heart rate, researchers speculate.
Medscape Medical News
Lab Notes: BP Drugs Cut Brain Amyloid
Source: MedPage Today Allergy & Immunology [2013.06.07]
(MedPage Today) -- Antihypertensive agents from different classes significantly reduced beta-amyloid protein plaques in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. Also this week: a master gene for autoimmune disease.
Breathing During Sleep Has Link to Alzheimer's (CME/CE)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry [2013.06.06]
BALTIMORE (MedPage Today) -- Older, thinner patients with sleep disordered breathing may be at risk for brain atrophy in regions of the brain affected by Alzheimer's disease, researchers reported here.
Alzheimer's Medications Lower Heart Attack And Death Risk
Source: Cardiovascular / Cardiology News From Medical News Today [2013.06.05]
Medications that are prescribed for early-stage Alzheimer's disease appear to reduce the risk of heart attack and early death, researchers from Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, reported in the European Heart Journal...
In Highly Educated Pre-Alzheimer's Patients, PET Finds Increased Cognitive Reserve Levels
Source: MRI / PET / Ultrasound News From Medical News Today [2013.06.05]
Highly educated individuals with mild cognitive impairment that later progressed to Alzheimer's disease cope better with the disease than individuals with a lower level of education in the same situation, according to research published in the June issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine...
Alzheimer's Cause Found In Trigger Of Brain Protein Malfunction
Source: Biology / Biochemistry News From Medical News Today [2013.05.23]
In a new breakthrough to find the cause of Alzheimer's disease, scientists have pinpointed a molecule that appears to trigger a chain reaction of protein malfunction that eventually clogs up and kills brain cells...
Transplanted Human Brain Cells Grow In Mice
Source: Epilepsy News From Medical News Today [2013.05.10]
A key type of human brain cell developed in the laboratory grows seamlessly when transplanted into the brains of mice, UC San Francisco researchers have discovered, raising hope that these cells might one day be used to treat people with Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, and possibly even Alzheimer's disease, as well as complications of spinal cord injury such as chronic pain and spasticity...
Study Of Amyloid-Forming Proteins May Lead To Therapies For Multiple Sclerosis, Other Neurodegenerative Diseases
Source: Multiple Sclerosis News From Medical News Today [2013.04.05]
Amyloids - clumps of misfolded proteins found in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders - are the quintessential bad boys of neurobiology...
Drugs Being Developed To Tackle CJD Could Also Help Prevent Alzheimer's
Source: CJD / vCJD / Mad Cow Disease News From Medical News Today [2011.06.09]
Scientists funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) have identified two antibodies which could help block the onset of Alzheimer's disease in the brain. The antibodies, ICSM-18 and ICSM-35, were already known to play a crucial role in preventing 'protein misfolding', the main cause of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), the human form of mad cow disease...
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