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African-Americans And Hispanics More Likely To Have Alzheimer's Disease And Dementia Than Whites
Source: Mental Health News From Medical News Today [2010.03.09]
According to the Alzheimer's Association's® 2010 Alzheimer's Disease Facts and Figures, African-Americans are about two times more likely and Hispanics are about one and one-half times more likely than their white counterparts to have Alzheimer's and other dementias...
Alzheimer's Disease More Prevalent in Blacks, Hispanics
Source: MedPage Today Neurology [2010.03.09]
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- African Americans and Hispanics are much more likely than whites to develop Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, according to new figures from the Alzheimer's Association.
Alzheimer's Disease Pictures Slideshow: A Caregiver's Guide
Source: MedicineNet Dementia Specialty [2010.02.17]
Title: Alzheimer's Disease Pictures Slideshow: A Caregiver's Guide
Category: Slideshows
Created: 2/16/2010 2:51:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 2/17/2010
Potential New Target Found for Alzheimer's Disease
Source: MedicineNet Amyloidosis Specialty [2009.12.10]
Title: Potential New Target Found for Alzheimer's Disease
Category: Health News
Created: 12/9/2009 12:10:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 12/10/2009
Alzheimer's Disease: Home Safety Information
Source: MedicineNet Advance Medical Directives Specialty [2008.08.26]
Title: Alzheimer's Disease: Home Safety Information
Category: Diseases and Conditions
Created: 8/26/2008
Last Editorial Review: 8/26/2008
Alzheimer's Disease
Source: MedicineNet Pick Disease Specialty [2007.07.17]
Title: Alzheimer's Disease
Category: Diseases and Conditions
Created: 12/31/1997
Last Editorial Review: 7/17/2007
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.
Alzheimer's Test That Can Be Administered In Family Practitioners' Offices Offers Better Opportunities For Early Detection
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today [2010.03.12]
Early detection is key to more effective treatment for Alzheimer's disease and other forms of cognitive impairment, and new research shows that a test developed at the University of Tennessee is more than 95 percent effective in detecting cognitive abnormalities associated with these diseases...
Scientists Find New Form Of Prion Disease That Damages Brain Arteries
Source: CJD / vCJD / Mad Cow Disease News From Medical News Today [2010.03.06]
WHAT: National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists investigating how prion diseases destroy the brain have observed a new form of the disease in mice that does not cause the sponge-like brain deterioration typically seen in prion diseases. Instead, it resembles a form of human Alzheimer's disease, cerebral amyloid angiopathy, that damages brain arteries...
Neurologists On Capitol Hill To Push For Health Care Reform
Source: Medicare / Medicaid / SCHIP News From Medical News Today [2010.03.06]
What: More than 100 neurologists from 40 states will be in Washington, DC, March 8-9, 2010, for "Neurology on the Hill," an event hosted by the American Academy of Neurology to educate lawmakers about the need for health care reform changes that consider neurologists and the patients they treat, including people with Alzheimer's disease, stroke, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, mi...
New Prion Disease Damages Brain Arteries
Source: Veterinary News From Medical News Today [2010.03.05]
A team of scientists from the US and the UK have found a new type of prion disease in mice that damages brain arteries and may help us better understand and treat types of Alzheimer's disease that cause similar damage. You can read a scientific paper about the discovery in the 5 March online issue of the journal PLoS Pathogens...
Novel Alzheimer's Drug Flops
Source: MedPage Today Neurology [2010.03.03]
The investigational Alzheimer's disease drug latrepirdine (Dimebon) failed in the pivotal CONNECTION trial of patients with mild-to-moderate disease, the drug's makers announced today.
Sense of Purpose Staves Off Alzheimer's (CME/CE)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry [2010.03.02]
Patients who maintain a greater sense of purpose in life as they age may be protected against Alzheimer's disease, researchers have found.
PET Scan Measures Brain Plaque Reductions in Alzheimer's (CME/CE)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry [2010.03.01]
A new PET scan neuroimaging technique measured drug-related reductions in the size of brain plaques thought to be responsible for the progression of Alzheimer's disease, a new study found.
QR Pharma Receives US Patent 7,625,942 To Treat Down Syndrome
Source: Mental Health News From Medical News Today [2010.02.26]
QR Pharma, Inc., a developer of novel drugs to treat Alzheimer's disease (AD), announced that it was issued U.S. Patent No. 7,625,942, a "Method of Treating Down Syndrome" by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The '942 patent covers use of Posiphen and analogs to treat cognitive impairments associated with Down Syndrome (DS)...
Old-Age Vision Problems Linked to Dementia (CME/CE, with audio)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry [2010.02.23]
Untreated vision problems in older age are associated with an increased risk of decline in cognitive function and Alzheimer's disease, data from a cohort study showed.
Medication Appears Well Tolerated And May Have Beneficial Effects In Patients With Huntington's Disease
Source: Huntingtons Disease News From Medical News Today [2010.02.09]
A medication previously studied in patients with Alzheimer's disease (latrepirdine) appears well tolerated and may improve thinking, learning and memory skills among individuals with Huntington's disease, according to a report in the February issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...
Discovery Of Compounds That Help Protect Nerve Cells
Source: Huntingtons Disease News From Medical News Today [2010.01.21]
Scientists at Duke University Medical Center have found some compounds that improve a cell's ability to properly "fold" proteins and could lead to promising drugs for degenerative nerve diseases, including Huntington's disease, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Misfolded proteins in nerve cells (neurons) are a common factor in all of these diseases...
Protein Inhibitor Helps Rid Brain Of Toxic Tau Protein
Source: Huntingtons Disease News From Medical News Today [2009.09.30]
Inhibiting the protein Hsp70 rapidly reduces brain levels of tau, a protein associated with Alzheimer's disease when it builds up abnormally inside nerve cells affecting memory, neuroscientists at the University of South Florida found. The study is reported online today in the Journal of Neuroscience...
Farmed Fish May Pose Risk For Mad Cow Disease
Source: CJD / vCJD / Mad Cow Disease News From Medical News Today [2009.06.18]
University of Louisville neurologist Robert P. Friedland, M.D., questions the safety of eating farmed fish in the June issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, adding a new worry to concerns about the nation's food supply...
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