In what is bound to be viewed as a significant setback, the results of vaccine trials aimed at removing amyloid β plaques from the brains of Alzheimer's sufferers, have failed to prevent or reverse dementia. The disappointing news appears in the July 19 edition of The Lancet
Professor Clive Holmes and his team from the Memory... Read more
Research published in the July 15 edition of the Medical Journal of Neurology, shows that people with Alzheimer's who are less fit have four times more signs of brain shrinkage than those who are fit.
The research team lead by Jeffrey M. Burns, MD, of the University of Kansas School of Medicine in Kansas City and members of the... Read more
A great deal of literature exists as to the association between low levels of education and an increased risk of dementia. Much less information is available regarding highly educated people and dementia. Available data points to a steeper rate of decline and earlier mortality rates once dementia is diagnosed. Because of this, early identification... Read more
Long term use of the painkiller ibuprofen when taken for more than five years has been found to decrease the risk of Alzheimer's disease by 40 percent. Published in the
Journal of Neurology, this large scale study demonstrated that the type of Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) was important in risk reduction. They found some NSAIDs... Read more
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