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PHC's Pivotal Research Initiates Largest Phase I Alzheimer's Disease Trial To Date For Major National Sponsor
Categorie : Alzheimer'sPHC, Inc. (AMEX: PHC) d.b.a. Pioneer Behavioral Health, a leading provider of inpatient and outpatient behavioral health services and pharmaceutical research, reported that its Pivotal Research Centers has initiated its largest Phase I Alzheimer's Disease trial to date for a major national sponsor. ...
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Sat Apr 2008
Arthritis Drug Success With Alzheimer's Prompts Calls For More Investment In Research
Categorie : Alzheimer'sA private clinic in California, USA, appears to be getting dramatic reductions in dementia symptoms by injecting an arthritis drug called etanercept into the neck of Alzheimer's patients. ...
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Three Winners Of New Award For Younger Researchers Announced By Coalition Of Alzheimer Organizations
Categorie : Alzheimer'sA coalition of leading Alzheimer's disease organizations today announced the first three recipients of "Tomorrow's Leaders in Alzheimer's Disease Research" prizes; a new award mechanism to recognize outstanding young scientists in Alzheimer's and dementia research. The three winners are: - Sterlin ...
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Wine May Protect Against Dementia
Categorie : Alzheimer'sThere may be constituents in wine that protect against dementia. This is shown in research from the Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg in Sweden.The findings are based on 1,458 women who were included in the so-called Population Study of Women from 1968. When they were examined by physi ...
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Alzheimer's Society Comment On Entanercept And TNF Alpha Protein, UK
Categorie : Alzheimer'sThere is an urgent demand for treatments to tackle Alzheimer's disease, which affects 400,000 people in the UK and millions more carers. These numbers are rising and investment in dementia research is an essential part of confronting this devastating condition. On the surface these results are excit ...
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Alzheimer's Society Comment On New Research Linking Type 2 Diabetes And Dementia
Categorie : Alzheimer'sDementia and diabetes have both been linked to being overweight and having an 'apple' shaped body.This study adds to a growing body of evidence linking developing diabetes type II with an increased risk of dementia. We are increasingly learning that what is good for your heart is good for your brain ...
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Alzheimer's Study Links Brain Size to Mental Decline
Categorie : Alzheimer'sScientists in the US discovered that elderly people who had no mental decline had larger brains than Alzheimer's patients, even though their brain tissue showed signs normally associated with the disease.The discovery is being presented this week at the American Academy of Neurology meeting in Chica ...
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Cognition In Alzheimer's Disease May Be Improved By Chinese Club Moss Extract
Categorie : Alzheimer'sExisting evidence suggests that patients with Alzheimer's disease who have taken Huperzine A have improved general cognitive function, global clinical status, functional performance and reduced behavioural disturbance compared to patients taking placebos.The research team came to this conclusion aft ...
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Mayo Clinic Study Identifies Potential Causes Of Young Onset Dementia
Categorie : Alzheimer'sA new Mayo Clinic study found that young-onset dementia often is caused by neurodegenerative or autoimmune/inflammatory conditions, but only rarely by Alzheimer's disease. This differs substantially from the common causes of dementia in older individuals (Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerat ...
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How Big Is Your Brain? Its Size May Protect You From Memory Loss
Categorie : Alzheimer'sFrom autopsies, researchers have long known that some people die with sharp minds and perfect memories, but their brains riddled with the plaques and tangles of Alzheimer's disease. New research shows that those people have a larger part of the brain called the hippocampus. The research will be pres ...
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Government's Prejudicial Health Policies Treat Elderly As A 'Lossleader', UK
Categorie : Alzheimer'sThe care of older people should be a central priority in the NHS but too often it is marginalised, neglected and plays second fiddle to initiatives or targets designed to appeal to younger voters, says a paper in this month's Journal of the Royal Medical Society. ...
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New Analysis Shows Hospitals Continue To Implement Palliative Care Programs At Rapid Pace
Categorie : Alzheimer'sAccording to a new Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) analysis of the latest data released from the 2008 American Hospital Association (AHA) Annual Survey of Hospitals, U.S. hospitals continue to implement palliative care programs at a rapid pace. The CAPC analysis shows that 1299 hospitals (3 ...
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Depression And Alzheimer's
Categorie : Alzheimer's"Depression may increase the risk of developing Alzheimer's", The Daily Telegraph says. It reports on a study that followed more than 900 Catholic clergy for up to 13 years. The study found that those who developed the disease had more symptoms of depression at the beginning of the study. The main a ...
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Results From Largest Statin Study Of Patients With Alzheimer's Disease Show Lipitor(R) Has No Significant Impact On Disease
Categorie : Alzheimer'sIn a study in patients with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD), the addition of Lipitor (atorvastatin calcium tablets) 80 mg to AriceptŪ (donepezil HCl) 10 mg showed no significant differences in cognition or global function (key measures of Alzheimer's progression) compared to placebo plus A ...
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Affiris Develops Alzheimer's Vaccine
Categorie : Alzheimer'sThe Viennese biotech company Affiris is taking stock of the progress achieved to date in its clinical Alzheimer's vaccination programme. All the Alzheimer's patients treated so far as part of the toxicological trials have tolerated the treatment extremely well. As a result, Affiris is among ...
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Alzheimer's Starts Earlier For Heavy Drinkers, Smokers
Categorie : Alzheimer'sHeavy drinkers and heavy smokers develop Alzheimer's disease years earlier than people with Alzheimer's who do not drink or smoke heavily, according to research that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology 60th Anniversary Annual Meeting in Chicago, April 12-19, 2008. ...
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Study Results Of GAMMAGARD S/D And GAMMAGARD LIQUID In Patients With Mild To Moderate Alzheimer's Disease Announced
Categorie : Alzheimer'sNew York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and Baxter International Inc. (NYSE: BAX) announced results of a six-month, placebo-controlled Phase II study of 24 patients treated with GAMMAGARD S/D and GAMMAGARD LIQUID [Immune Globulin Intravenous (IGIV)] for the treatment of mild-to ...
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Study Suggests Gammagard Liquid May Target The Primary Pathway Involved In Alzheimer's Disease
Categorie : Alzheimer'sThe University of Tennessee Health Science Center and Baxter International Inc. ...
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Memory Problems In Older People Affects Men More Than Women
Categorie : Alzheimer'sScientists in the US have discovered that mild cognitive impairment, as characterized by problems with memory and thinking and known to be a transition stage before dementia, appears to affect older men more than it does older women. ...
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High Cholesterol In Your 40s Increases Risk Of Alzheimer's Disease
Categorie : Alzheimer'sPeople with high cholesterol in their early 40s are more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease than those with low cholesterol, according to research that will be presented at the upcoming American Academy of Neurology 60th Anniversary Annual Meeting in Chicago, April 12-19, 2008. ...
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