Alzheimer's Society Comment On House Of Commons Dementia Debate, UK

MPs debated the swell of the government's National Dementia Strategy in the House of Commons. Shadow illness minister Stephen O'Brien said the Conservative supervision would have insanity services the 'priority'. He was speaking weeks after the National Audit Office found that as most as 8.2 billion is being spent inefficiently upon insanity care every year...

Magnesium May Improve Memory

Title: Magnesium May Improve Memory
Category: Health News
Created: 1/28/2010 10:22:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 1/28/2010 10:22:18 AM

Lupin Receives US FDA Tentative Approval For Memantine HCl Tablets

Lupin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (LPI) voiced which it has perceived tentative capitulation from a US Food as well as Drug Administration (US FDA) for a Memantine Hydrochloride tablets, 5mg as well as 10mg. Lupin's Memantine HCl tablets have been AB-rated to Namenda tablets indicated for a diagnosis of moderate to serious dementia of a Alzheimer's type. Namenda had annual sales of we estimate $1...

Blueberry Juice May Boost Memory

Title: Blueberry Juice May Boost Memory
Category: Health News
Created: 1/22/2010 11:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 1/22/2010 11:00:38 AM

The 'Noisiest' Neurons Persist In The Adult Brain

MIT neuroscientists have detected that when it comes to new neurons in a adult brain, a squeakiest wheels get a grease. "Before, scientists believed a cells with a many accurate performance were comparison as well as a others were rejected," said Picower Institute for Learning as well as Memory researcher Carlos Lois...

Loss of Smell Could Be Early Sign of Alzheimer's

Title: Loss of Smell Could Be Early Sign of Alzheimer's
Category: Health News
Created: 1/12/2010 6:10:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 1/13/2010

Claims That Diabetes Triples Risk Of Dementia In Some Older People

A brand new study claims that a little older people with amiable memory-loss have been 3 times some-more expected to rise insanity if they additionally have diabetes. The research, by Alzheimer's Research Trust scientists at King's College London, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, investigated the tie in between amiable cognitive spoil (MCI) in older people and dementia...

Nutrient 'Cocktail' Appears to Improve Dementia Symptoms

Title: Nutrient 'Cocktail' Appears to Improve Dementia Symptoms
Category: Health News
Created: 1/8/2010 12:10:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 1/11/2010

University Hospitals Case Medical Center Testing Gene Therapy For Alzheimer's Disease

University Hospitals Case Medical Center is the single of 12 sites conducting the first Phase 2 clinical hearing of the gene care for Alzheimer's disease (AD). The investigate uses the viral-based gene transfer system called CERE-110, which is written to deliver haughtiness expansion cause (NGF) into the brain. University Hospitals (UH) is the usually site in the Midwest for the study...

Assisted Living More Accessible to Well-Off

Title: Assisted Living More Accessible to Well-Off
Category: Health News
Created: 1/7/2010 8:10:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 1/7/2010

Charity Calls On Political Parties To Address Social Care Failings - Alzheimer's Society

Alzheimer's Society is calling for political celebration election manifestos to residence serious failings in insanity care. The charity's consult of scarcely 1,500 carers and people with insanity found vital concerns about the standards of care being provided...

New Key Factor Identified In The Development Of Alzheimer's Disease

Inheritance of an additional copy of a gene - beta - amyloid predecessor protein, APP, in individuals with Down syndrome leads to a unavoidable development of early onset Alzheimer's disease, well known to be linked to a deposition of Amyloid beta peptide or A beta in a brain...

Microcephaly Genes Associated With Human Brain Size

A group of Norwegian as good as American researchers have shown that usual variations in genes associated with microcephaly - the neuro-developmental commotion in that brain size is dramatically marked down - might insist differences in brain size in full of health people as good as in patients with neurological as good as psychiatric disorders...

Case Western Reserve Alzheimer's Disease Researcher Named 2009 AAAS Fellow

Mark A. Smith, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has been awarded a eminence American Association for a Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow. Election as a Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers. As part of a Section upon Medical Sciences, Dr...

Ginkgo Biloba Doesn't Slow Mental Decline

Title: Ginkgo Biloba Doesn't Slow Mental Decline
Category: Health News
Created: 12/30/2009 10:23:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 12/30/2009 10:23:48 AM