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Scientists at Northwestern Medicine in the US said they were amazed by the findings and are now looking for genetic, dietary or environmental reasons responsible.
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Finally a cure?
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By the close of this year, the Indianapolis-based Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company Lilly , whose products have included the antidepressant Prozac and human insulin, will release the results of Expedition 3, a study testing a drug that targets amyloid in persons with mild stage dementia caused by Alzheimer’s disease. Its subjects are unique. They don’t simply have Alzheimer’s disease diagnosed by a careful history and exam. They have a brain scan showing amyloid accumulation.
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A teenager wants to cure Alzheimer’s
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Hope and concern about a new Alzheimer’s drug
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The results are promising but the research continues as the side effects remain. Read the whole story and you will be enthusiastic and concerned too.
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Prevent Alzheimer’s? Start as a teenager!
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A Waterloo researcher is looking at the link between high school grades and the complexity of essays written in early adulthood to the risk of Alzheimer’s decades later.
“We know that early brain development is important later in life,” said applied health sciences professor Suzanne Tyas at the University of Waterloo.
Potentially that could lead to strategies to build “cognitive resilience” to reduce the impact of Alzheimer’s disease, which destroys brain cells.
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Where are we with the rise of Alzheimer’s?
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Soaring rates of population growth and ageing have long been seen as portending a global explosion of Alzheimer’s, the debilitating disease that robs older people of their memory and independence.
But an unexpected, and hopeful, trend may be emerging.
In rich countries at least, recent data suggests the rate of new cases has slowed or even reversed — a tantalising hint that quality-of-life improvements may protect against dementia.
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