Both parents have Alzheimer? You’re next

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A new study reveals that if both parents have suffered from Alzheimer, the children most likely show already signs of the disease in their brain imaging in the middle age years. If only one parent had Alzheimer the issue is less severe.

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GE helps find a cure for Alzheimer

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In Japan a huge study of 9,000 participants has been going on for ten years and now, with the help of GE health care in Japan, the Hirosaki university researchers will start looking for clues and indicators that can tell us if someone has Alzheimer and what causes it.

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Acupuncture and alzheimer

Alzheimer; News from the web:

Acupuncture may help Alzheimer. The researchers note that their findings suggest that acupuncture improves memory and prevents degradation of brain tissue. They note “that EA (electroacupuncture) may be a promising treatment for AD (Alzheimer’s disease)” and “may improve cognitive function.”

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10 drugmakers work together to write alzheimer history

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Pfizer Inc., Eli Lilly & Co. and eight other large drug makers will partner with the U.S. government in a $230-million effort to identify new approaches to treat Alzheimer’s, diabetes, lupus and arthritis.

Data generated from the work will be made public for other scientists to use, a move the U.S. National Institutes of Health called groundbreaking. The targeted diseases are some of the most prevalent conditions among Americans, costing the nation billions of dollars in treatment and lost productivity.

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Alzheimer research moving to humans

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At present, the analysis of tau proteins, one of the most active areas of Alzheimer’s research, often requires the use of hundreds of animals, is time consuming and expensive and can produce results that may not translate beneficially to humans.

The Aston Center for Healthy aging’s impending study will develop a research method based upon testing human stem cells instead of transgenic mice. It is hoped this new procedure will help scientists predict with greater accuracy the effectiveness of the latest drugs intended to combat the onset of Alzheimer’s.

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