Does Diabetes Speed Up Memory Loss In Alzheimers Disease?
ScienceDaily, 10/28/2009
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risk of Alzheimer's disease and the risk of memory loss in people who don't have Alzheimer's disease. But it hasn't been clear whether people with Alzheimer's disease and diabetes have more rapid memory loss than those who have Alzheimer's disease but no diabetes.
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Alzheimer's lesions found in the retina
EurekAlert, 10/22/2009
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The eyes may be the windows to the soul, but new research indicates they also may mirror a brain ravaged by Alzheimer's disease. UC Irvine neuroscientists have found that retinas in mice genetically altered to have Alzheimer's undergo changes similar to ... those that occur in the brain – most notably the accumulation of amyloid plaque lesions.
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High Blood Pressure Likely in Alzheimers Offspring
MedLinePlus, 11/04/2009
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Middle–aged adults whose parents have Alzheimer's disease are at increased risk for high blood pressure, evidence of arterial disease and markers of inflammation all of which may be associated with later development of Alzheimer's disease. That's the finding of a study by researchers in the ... families with a parental history of Alzheimer's and 200 adults in 97 families with no parental history of the disease.
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Inflammation, Genes, and Hypertension All Contribute to Alzheimer's Risk
U.S. News & World Report, 11/03/2009
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You might think of Alzheimer's disease as a genetic condition that you can do nothing to avoid. But that may not be the case. New research suggests that Alzheimer's is partly driven by inflammation, a process that we do have ... parents developed dementia late in life, Danish researchers found that, compared with those whose parents didn't have Alzheimers, the volunteers were more likely to have high blood pressure and high levels of inflammatory proteins called cytokines.
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Vision Troubles may Signal Alzheimers
Ivanhoe, 10/28/2009
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For patients who visit the doctor with vision complaints, Alzheimer’s may be to blame. Researchers have found clues to help ophthalmologists detect visual variant Alzheimer's disease, a rare cause of impaired sight.
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Bayer Schering Pharma collaborates with AC Immune in the field of Alzheimer's disease
BayNews International, 10/15/2009
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Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Germany, will provide its development candidate florbetaben, a so called PET (positron emission tomography) tracer, to the Swiss–based biopharmaceutical company AC Immune SA, to support a clinical trial in the field of Alzheimer´s disease (AD ... is conducted to develop a therapy option for the treatment of AD. Bayer´s novel PET tracer florbetaben will be applied for imaging of beta–Amyloid deposition in the brain of patients undergoing the phase I clinical testing of AC Immune´s Alzheimer´s vaccine ACI–24.
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Protective Role For Copper In Alzheimers Disease
ScienceDaily, 10/14/2009
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amyloid beta plaques which are found in the brains of people of Alzheimer's disease. A central tenet of the Amyloid Cascade Hypothesis of Alzheimer’s disease is the aberrant deposition in the brain of A beta 42 in beta–sheets in neuritic or senile plaques.
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System Tracks Alzheimer's Patients
HealthDataManagement, 11/02/2009
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Omnilink Systems, Alpharetta, Ga., has joined forces with the Alzheimer’s Association to introduce Comfort Zone, a location management system for Alzheimer’s patients.
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Safety/Tolerability and Efficacy of Rivastigmine in Taiwanese Patients with Alzheimer's Disease: A Prospective Post-Marketing Surveillance Study
Clinical Drug Investigation, 10/14/2009
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Chiu PY et al. – Based on the results of this study, rivastigmine administered usually at a dose of 3–6 mg twice daily was found to be well ... these symptoms were mild in severity and short in duration. This study also demonstrated the efficacy of rivastigmine in at least stabilizing the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.
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Olive oil and Alzheimers disease
Internet Source, 10/05/2009
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"Olive oil could hold key to defeating Alzheimer's," reported the Daily Express. The newspaper reported that a compound found in the oil has been shown to slow down changes in the brain that lead to Alzheimer's disease. According to the paper, researchers believe that the ... key ingredient in new drugs.
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