Politicians Not Doing Enough To Improve Care For Older People, UK

Thursday 11 March 2010 @ 8:03 am
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Sixty per cent of people think politicians are not doing enough to improve care for older people according to a survey by Age Concern and Help the Aged. The poll also found that eight out of ten adults believe care reform is among the most important issues in the forthcoming election…

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New Evidence Further Validates Ketone Body Therapy As An Effective Approach In Managing Alzheimer’s Disease

Wednesday 10 March 2010 @ 4:03 am
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Accera, Inc., a biotechnology company delivering breakthrough therapies in central nervous system diseases, announced data which showed that augmentation with ketone bodies significantly improved cognitive function in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients. An early feature of AD is region specific declines in cerebral glucose metabolism…

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Alzheimer’s Association Honors Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue With Humanitarian Award

Tuesday 9 March 2010 @ 10:03 am
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Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue is the recipient of the Alzheimer’s Association’s 2010 Humanitarian Award. The award is given each year to a public official who has made a significant contribution to help those who are struggling with Alzheimer’s disease…

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State Roundup: N.Y. Drug Pricing, Vermont Hospital Ads, Massachusetts Nursing Homes And Anti-Psychotics

Tuesday 9 March 2010 @ 10:03 am
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Poughkeepsie Journal: A new report on New York drug prices, “issued by the New York Public Interest Research Group, Consumers Union, the Center for Medical Consumers and AARP, looked at the price of the 10 most popular drugs found in the state’s pharmacies provided through a Freedom of Information Law request…

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African-Americans And Hispanics More Likely To Have Alzheimer’s Disease And Dementia Than Whites

Tuesday 9 March 2010 @ 9:03 am
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According to the Alzheimer’s Association’s® 2010 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures, African-Americans are about two times more likely and Hispanics are about one and one-half times more likely than their white counterparts to have Alzheimer’s and other dementias…

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Has The Clock Struck 12 For Dimebon?

Tuesday 9 March 2010 @ 2:03 am
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The Cinderella story eventually has a happy ending, but to revelers in the Dimebon story right now the time must feel like five past midnight. Some scientists have considered the sudden transformation of a modest hay fever medicine from Russia into the latest star in the AD drug development arena as a bit of a fairy tale all along…

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Technology And Positive Attitudes Improving Older People’s Lives

Monday 8 March 2010 @ 8:03 am
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The population of the UK is ageing. Sixteen per cent of the UK population is 65 or older, and for the first time, there are more people over the age of 65 than there are under the age of 18. This raises a lot of questions on issues such as pension provision, health care and wellbeing…

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Major Depression More Than Doubles Risk Of Dementia Among Adults With Diabetes

Monday 8 March 2010 @ 5:03 am
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Adults who have both diabetes and major depression are more than twice as likely to develop dementia, compared to adults with diabetes only, according to a study published in the recent Journal of General Internal Medicine. Dementia is the progressive decline of thinking and reasoning abilities…

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Alzforum’s 5-Part Series On Alzheimer’s Prevention Initiative

Saturday 6 March 2010 @ 5:03 am
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The field is abuzz with the word “prevention,” but how to pull off this vaunted goal? It’s been held back by a strange Catch-22 of cost, time, and biomarker validation. That might change with a bold initiative led by Eric Reiman, Pierre Tariot, and others at the Banner Alzheimer’s Institute…

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Scientists Find New Form Of Prion Disease That Damages Brain Arteries

Saturday 6 March 2010 @ 5:03 am
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WHAT: National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists investigating how prion diseases destroy the brain have observed a new form of the disease in mice that does not cause the sponge-like brain deterioration typically seen in prion diseases. Instead, it resembles a form of human Alzheimer’s disease, cerebral amyloid angiopathy, that damages brain arteries…

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