Alzheimer's Disease

Alzheimer's Drug Dimebon Helps Huntington's: Study

Health - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

Dimebon, a pill being developed for Alzheimer's disease, helped people with Huntington's disease improve their thinking, learning and memory skills....

• Alzheimer's drug shows promise for Huntington's disease - Sify
• Drug shows promise for Huntington's disease - Physorg
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STUDY: Pot May Not Be A Cure For Alzheimer’s But It Still Makes Led Zep’s “Kashmir” Sound Awesome

Phawker (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA: The benefits of marijuana in tempering or reversing the effects of Alzheimer’s disease have been challenged in a new study by researchers at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute. The findings, published in the current issue of the journal Current Alzheimer Research, could lower expectations about [...]

• Unfortunately, Marijuana Ineffective as Treatment for Alzheimers - Mizozo

The Role Of Long-Term In-Home Care For Alzheimer’s Patients

JeyamArticle (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

Caring for a family member inflicted with symptoms of Alzheimer's disease is both debilitating and a challenging task. Each day brings new demands as the caregiver copes with the rapid progression of the new patterns of behavior of the Alzheimer's patient.

Alzheimer’s drug Dimebon helps Huntington’s: study (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

4 - Alzheimers (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago

Dimebon, a pill being developed for Alzheimer's disease, helped people with Huntington's disease improve their thinking, learning and memory skills, U.S. researchers said on Monday. Related posts: Alzheimer’s protein may be early risk factor (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Cellphones may protect brain from Alzheimer’s (Reuters via Yahoo! News) More muscle power means lower Alzheimer’s risk...

Marijuana Likely No Help in Alzheimer’s

Diabetes Notes (Free subscription) | yesterday

Medicinal marijuana is finding its way into many areas of medicine. It’s a big help for some people with AIDS, providing them with a much-needed appetite. Marijuana is helpful for some people with cancer, helping them manage their side effects, and it’s also been found to help people with glaucoma, just to name a few. There was hope that medicinal marijuana would provide help for people...

Career move: Starman joins Alzheimer board (Sun-Sentinel)

4 - Alzheimers (Free subscription) | yesterday

Elliott Starman , partner at Ribotsky, Levine & Co. CPAs in North Miami, joined the board of the Alzheimer's Association Southeast Florida chapter, in West Palm Beach. Related posts: Families urged to contact the Alzheimer Society (Woodstock Sentinel-Review) Nurse changes career gears to focus on elderly patients Could Your Career Put You at Risk for Alzheimer's Disease?

Speaking to Mom with Alzheimer's on a Sunday

A Stellarlife (Free subscription) | yesterday

BRRRRRRR Mom: "Hello." (sounds like she just woke up or out partying all night in the nursing home lobby,seeing that it is 2PM in Indiana, I'm thinking nap) Diane: "MOTHER!" (she laughs) "Did I wake you?" Mom: "No, I was just closing my eyes." (That never grows old.) D: "How are you?" M: "Fine, how are you?" D: "I'm fine. What's new?"...

‘The Thousand Mile Stare’ and ‘The Last of His Mind’ bring paternal Alzheimer’s disease into focus (The Cleveland Plain Dealer)

4 - Alzheimers (Free subscription) | 07/02/2010

Roughly five million Americans live with Alzheimer's disease, but John Thorndike, an Ohio University professor, and Gary Reiswig, an East Hampton, N.Y., novelist and inn owner, take us far into the dark with a pair of wonderfully woeful new books. Related posts: Seniors Bring Song, Hope To Alzheimer Patients (NY1 News) Alzheimers Disease: - Cleveland.com: Chatterbox Forum NEW Area residents to attend...

Medivation's Dimebon turns in promising results for Huntington's

Fiercebiotech (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

The drug Dimebon, which has shown some significant promise for Alzheimer's, has now registered positive results in a trial designed to test the therapy's ability to improve thinking, learning and memory skills for people who suffer from Huntington's. Dr. Karl Kieburtz of the University of Rochester in New York says that the drug also appears to be safe and well tolerated. Article

Alzheimers Prevent it before you forget it

Health Assistant Feed (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

Based on research studies, The best way to prevent Alzheimer' disease is to actually prevent it from having. So if you think sooner or later you or one of your family might have it after few years, Then it's better to do something right now. Don't wait before you get diagnosed or something. So here's a list that may help you see the signs and symptoms of Alzheimer's disease . The very first symptoms...

Westbrook: "trying to get ready for ... upcoming season"

The Daily Blitz (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

Last year was a season that Eagles running back Brian Westbrook would like to forget. Westbrook, who missed eight games in 2009 due to suffering multiple concussions, admitted on WGFX radio in Nashville yesterday that he wasn't fully healed from his first concussion despite missing all of the medical tests. " I don't think a lot of people are taking [concussions] as serious as they should be...

Phenylbutyric Acid Rescues Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress-Induced Suppression of APP Proteolysis and Prevents Apoptosis in Neuronal Cells

PLoS ONE (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago

Background The familial and sporadic forms of Alzheimer's disease (AD) have an identical pathology with a severe disparity in the time of onset [1]. The pathological similarity suggests that epigenetic processes may phenocopy the Familial Alzheimer's disease (FAD) mutations within sporadic AD. Numerous groups have demonstrated that FAD mutations in presenilin result in ‘loss of function’...

No Reduction in Crashes After Cell Phone Bans, Stress Hormone May Treat Diabetes, and High Deductible Health Plans

John Goodman's Health Policy Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

Study: There has been no significant reduction in accident claims in states that have banned the use of hand-held cellphones behind the wheel. When we say “I’m looking forward,” guess which direction we tend to lean. The hormone that has been implicated in anxiety, obesity, addiction and even Alzheimer’s disease may have a far more positive use: [...]

Genes reveal 'biological ageing'

Healthy Life Science by Crabsallover (Free subscription) | yesterday

Telomeres at the end of chromosomes shorten with age Gene variants that might show how fast people's bodies are actually ageing have been pinpointed by scientists. Researchers from the University of Leicester and Kings College London say the finding could help spot people at higher risk of age-related illnesses. People carrying the variant had differences in the "biological clock" within...

Maddy’s Misrepresentations

Geoff Coupe's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

I see that Madeleine Bunting is giving us the benefit of her views on the subject of euthanasia . I really find it irritating that she can so wilfully misrepresent Terry Prachett’s position: "My life, my death, my choice," declared Pratchett. But this slogan is deeply deceptive; there is nothing to stop anyone committing suicide. The point Pratchett was making was quite different:...

Obesity Can Harm the Brain

bsalmons | 26/08/2009

Obese people have 8 % less brain tissue than people with a normal weight, according to a new study. Obesity can make the brain look 16 years older than the brain of lean people. "That's a big loss of tissue and it depletes your cognitive reserves, putting you at much greater risk of Alzheimer's and other diseases that attack the brain."