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AN ADORABLE toddler is slowly forgetting how to eat, speak and even breathe after being diagnosed with a rare condition that affects less than 1 in 120,000 children worldwide.
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Category Archives: Research
The Medical Minute: Rate of Alzheimer’s deaths on the rise
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The rate of death from Alzheimer’s disease in the United States increased by more than 50 percent in the past 15 years, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In part, it’s because Americans are living longer — age is one of the biggest risk factors for developing Alzheimer’s. But it’s also because medical professionals can identify risk factors, recognize the symptoms and diagnose the disease earlier.
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The earliest stage of Alzheimer’s discovered
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Paul Aisen, senior author of the study and director of the USC Alzheimer’s Therapeutic Research Institute (ATRI) at the Keck School of Medicine. “This study is a significant step toward the idea that elevated amyloid levels are an early stage of Alzheimer’s, an appropriate stage for anti-amyloid therapy.”
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Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month
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June is Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month, a good time to better understand memory loss and dementia, its causes and treatments and what can be done to strengthen the brain.
Perhaps most importantly it’s a reminder to notice when forgetting things is normal and when it may be something more – in other words when it’s time to see a doctor.
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Uh Oh, there may be a lot more Alzheimer’s cases in the US!
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Alzheimer’s disease begins years before mental deterioration is detected, a new study suggests. This finding could result in doubling the estimated number of people with the neurodegenerative disease
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Watch out for aluminium! It causes Alzheimer’s
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In the absence of pathologically significant deposits of aluminum in brain tissue, there would not be any (acute) Alzheimer’s disease within a normal lifespan of say 100 years. Support for this conclusion has been building over the last decade or so and has now been put on an unequivocally firm footing by recent research demonstrating the exceedingly high content of aluminum in brain tissue in individuals who died with a diagnosis of familial Alzheimer’s disease.
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