Category Archives: Drugs

From Nebraska…. a possible new Alzheimer drug

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Alzheimer; News from the web:

The University of Nebraska Medical Center is participating in a new, national, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) clinical research study evaluating the potential benefits of an investigational medicine when taken by people with mild-to-moderate AD who are already being treated with donepezil (Aricept).

Entitled NOBLE, the trial is evaluating an investigational drug, T-817MA, which may have the potential to modify the pace of the disease in those who are currently suffering with mild-to-moderate AD

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Alzheimer anxiety and insomnia

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New research shows that medicine that gets prescribed routinely for anxiety or insomnia, may impact how susceptible you are for Alzheimer. For now they have established that there is a relationship between using these medicine and Alzheimer but it is not sure that the relationship is causal. More research necessary but a good reminder to be careful with these prescription drugs and the researchers have some recommendations about it in their report.

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Another step forward for Alzheimer

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There is no cure for Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia, but University of Washington bioengineers are one step closer to finding a treatment. They have designed a peptide structure that can stop the harmful changes of the body’s normal proteins into a state that’s linked to widespread diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and Lou Gehrig’s disease.

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