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Could Your Personality In High School Determine Your Risk Of Dementia?
A brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal. If you had to guess, which one do you think would get dementia?
New Partnership Could Lead To ‘An Almost Instant Off-The-Shelf’ ‘One-Size-Fits-All’ Cancer Treatment
Kevin Pojasek, Ervaxx CEO, said the collaboration with the Cardiff University research group “shows early but enormous potential for the treatment of cancers.”
Medicare Will Now Pay For Acupuncture In Part Due To Opioid Abuse
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that Medicare will now cover acupuncture for patients with chronic low back pain in part because of the widespread abuse of opioids in America.
Volunteers Needed Nationwide For Latest Drug, Caregiver and Brain Stimulation Studies For Alzheimer’s, Dementia
The NIA funds Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centers (ADRCs) at major medical institutions across the US, and researchers at these centers are working hard to turn research advances into treatment or possibly a cure for Alzheimer’s and related dementias….
A Simple Blood Test Could Help Identify Targets For Preventing And Treating Age-Related Disease
Protein signatures could have potential for helping diagnose diseases like Alzheimer’s disease, for which no blood tests currently exist.
So Far, Just One Thing Has ‘Experimental Support’ In Staving Off Alzheimer’s
Scientists have made significant strides in the last two decades in understanding Alzheimer’s disease and learning more about who might be victimized by it, but they’ve suffered immense frustration by so many failed large clinical trials that they had …
Despite New Research, Scientists Want More Proof That Hyperbaric Oxygen Treats Alzheimer’s
“We now have an irrefutable biomarker system that this intervention has promise where no other real hope for recovery of dementia has ever existed before,” said Dr. Edward Fogarty chairman of Radiology at the University of North Dakota (UND) School of …
Could A Good Night’s Sleep Protect You From Heart Disease?
“Understanding the potential impact of poor sleep and circadian health on blood cell formation and vascular disease opens new avenues for developing improved treatments,” said Michael Twery, Ph.D., director of the National Center on Sleep Disorders Res…
40 Sites Across The Country To Test New Alzheimer’s Drug
“If the drug proves effective it could give patients a way to manage or lessen their symptoms even if a cure remains out of reach,” said Howard Feldman, M.D., renowned neurologist and director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study (ADCS).
NIA Offers Opportunities To Participate In Aging, Alzheimer’s, Dementia Research
Find out how you can participate in the National Institute on Aging’s (NIA) Alzheimer’s and related dementias clinical research.
