Living Alone Increases Odds of Developing Dementia Middle-aged adults who live alone are twice as likely to develop dementia or Alzheimer's disease later in life compared to those who are married or live with a partner. And the risk is three times higher among those who are divorced or widowed, according to a new study by Swedish and Finnish researchers.
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Attacking Alzheimer's With a New Test for Amyloid Beta
Holtzman's persistence is paying off. Until now, it typically took about two years to determine whether a new Alzheimer's drug was having an effect. But recently, he and colleagues devised a test that rapidly shows whether an experimental medication has a chance of working. "There aren't good ways without doing a long, expensive trial" to determine this, he says. But with the new test, called stable isotope-linked kinetics, or SILK, "we were able to come up with a technique to figure out over a day or two whether a drug is hitting its target in the brain," he says.
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Eisai to submit NDA for Aricept in Aug or Sept The company said in a statement that it has completed a phase three clinical study of donepezil sustained release, a formulation that raises the blood level of donepezil while maintaining safety.
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Middle-aged adults who live alone are twice as likely to develop dementia or Alzheimer's disease later in life compared to those who are married or live with a partner. And the risk is three times higher among those who are divorced or widowed, according to a new study by Swedish and Finnish researchers.
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