Alzheimer; News from the web:
New research at the University of Warwick is now underway to “prove” how curcumin can induce autophagy to prevent Alzheimer’s, after initial tests showed positive results.
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Category Archives: Research
Failed trial
Alzheimer; News from the web:
The companies developing aducanumab, Biogen and its partner Eisai, announced that they halted two late-stage trials of the experimental drug after an independent group’s analysis showed that the trials were unlikely to “meet their primary endpoint.”
The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based biotech giant joins a long list of companies in the last decade that have failed to find a treatment for Alzheimer’s.
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Possible new research path
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Old brains still make neurons, study finds, offering a possible way to protect against Alzheimer’s
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Potentially groundbreaking study
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Now you have to worry about your extended family too
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Having a great-grandparent or even a cousin — referred to as “third-degree relatives” — with Alzheimer’s disease may raise your own risk of developing the disease, according to new research.
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Latest research findings on Alzheimer’s
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Next avenue has a great article about the latest theories concerning what causes Alzheimer’s. We link to it below. So far, the results have been beyond disappointing. A class of drugs called “acetylcholinesterase inhibitors” offer marginal functional improvements, but that’s been it. Things are starting to change, though.
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