Alzheimer; News from the web:
Many patients with a newly identified subtype of Alzheimer’s disease are misdiagnosed and don’t receive proper treatment, researchers report. They analyzed the brains of more than 1,800 Alzheimer’s patients and found that 11 percent of them had this subtype, called “hippocampal sparing Alzheimer’s disease.”
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Alzheimer; News from the web:
A new large study is being set up in Miami under healthy elderly to see if we can learn about prevention of Alzheimer.
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Alzheimer; News from the web:
The Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation has launched a new site with lots of information about Alzheimer, the research, treatment options and more.
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Alzheimer; News from the web:
Six Taiwan-based scientists have announced what may be a long hoped-for breakthrough in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease. They have discovered that so-called statins, drugs developed originally to lower cholesterol levels, seem to reduce the risk of dementia by as much as one-quarter.
It is still early days and reduced risk does not mean prevention or treatment. But there is another glimmer of hope.
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Alzheimer; News from the web:
An alarming increase in Alzheimer cases in the state of Nevada. A great quote from this article that calls for action:
“If someone has lost the use of their legs, then we build a ramp to get into the building, but if someone loses their cognitive ability, we don’t build them a cognitive ramp to the community.”
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