alzheimer's disease
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Windows Defragmenter: Not Good Enough
Take a look at this white paper to learn which products you should be using to properly and safely defragment your enterprise hardware.
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WHO says dementia is a ticking time bomb
We need a plan for how to handle the coming dementia crisis. Here's the bad news and some good news.
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Alzheimer's and open source medicine
Open source is not just for software any more.
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Alzheimer's epidemic will follow the obesity one
Just as with the obesity epidemic, you can expect an Alzheimer's gold rush, as new therapies are passed by the FDA and a fading baby boom generation begs for anything claiming to offer relief.
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An Alzheimer's cure could be closer than we think
Chain has what he calls a "platform" covering at least three monoclonal antibodies that can act against Alzheimer's. One drug based on the platform is in a Stage Three trial. Others are in first...
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Alzheimer's the disease of the year for 2009
We are progressing against it on many different fronts. There is no cure. Those with the diagnosis must still be treated as terminally ill. But a lot is going on.
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The coffee cure for memory loss
Researchers at the Byrd Alzheimer's Center in Tampa have given mice bred with Alzheimer's the equivalent of five cups of coffee per day (a long breakfast at the Chatterbox) and found better memory...
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Genentech playing poker with Alzheimer's?
If the market buys into the importance of Genentech's Alzheimer's work, bidding the stock over the current $86/share Roche offer, the deal could be off.
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Alzheimer's is diabetes of the brain?
Cells from the hippocampus treated with insulin and an anti-diabetes drug that promotes use of insulin became much less susceptible to damage from the amyloid beta plaques whose role is considered...
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Will apple juice or coffee prevent Alzheimer's?
A Scandinavian study says drinking coffee in mid-life can keep you from getting Alzheimer's later in life. The research showed those who drank 3-5 cups per day fared best. Then there's apple juice.
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Ginkgo Biloba does not help either
The Journal of the American Medical Association published results from a randomized test of ginkgo and found it does nothing to prevent either Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia.
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Is Alzheimer's also heart disease?
We are finding that many of the modifiable health behaviors, like exercise, diet and smoking, that have been historically associated with heart disease are now associated with the development of...
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Does Prana offer real Alzheimer's hope or head fake?
A substance called PBT2. It transports ions of copper and zinc across the blood-brain barrier, which then break up the plaques which cause Alzheimer's Diseease
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Flurizan failure does not end Alzheimer's hope
Flurizan aimed to stop development of all amyloid plaques. Gamma-secretase modulators (GSMs) only go after the long ones.
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Another amyloid-beta clue to Alzheimer's
The studies help explain why some people found after death to have lots of insoluble Alzheimer's plaques never develop the disease. But it's a long way from understanding the causes to creating a...
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GSMs offer new link between Alzheimer's and heart disease
What makes GSMs so promising is that, while statins may stop plaque from forming they do nothing about plaque which is there, while with the new drugs "GSM agents actually stick to the Abeta...
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Is Alzheimer's on the ropes?
Some 32 centers around the country are enrolling patients in 8 new trials of a drug that drags beta amyloid, the protein whose plaques cause brain cells to die, into the bloodstream for disposal.
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The fight over statins
Depending on who you read statins like simvastatin and Lipitor are either the "greatest things evah!" or an out-and-out fraud. There are two reasons for this. Studies of long-term statin use...
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New Alzheimer's test is scary tech
A company called Satoris has announced a blood test that can detect Alzheimer's 2-6 years away from any symptoms. But do you want to know?
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WHO says dementia is a ticking time bomb
We need a plan for how to handle the coming dementia crisis. Here's the bad news and some good news.
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Facebook helps diagnose Kawasaki disease, saving 4-year-old boy's life
This is the story about the role Facebook played in saving a 4-year-old boy's life from a rare condition known as Kawasaki disease, after doctors failed to recognize it.
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