Language 'predicts dementia risk'"One possible implication of this study is that an intellectual ability test in the early 20s may predict the likelihood of remaining cognitively normal five or six decades later." -- Rebecca Wood, Alzheimer's Research Trust
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go hereInflammation may trigger Alzheimer's disease The anti-inflammatory drug indomethacin could hold promise as a treatment for Alzheimer's disease, says a Saint Louis University doctor and researcher.
Two research studies published by William A. Banks, M.D., professor of geriatrics and pharmacological and physiological science at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, support this conclusion and offer what he calls a "one-two punch" in giving clues on how Alzheimer's disease develops and could be treated.
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go hereLiving in the Moment My sister and I had inklings of a slow atrophying of my mother’s mind, perhaps of her very self, before she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in April, 2008. And yet, strangely, I’d also noticed around that time she’d seemed to be more “herself.” So I felt oddly reassured at the news. The diagnosis seemed to explain something about who my mother was, perhaps who she’d been most of my life. Due to its seeming genetic component, we believed the type to be early-onset. It could have started when I was still a kid.
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go hereLast NICE Word on Alzheimer's Meds The protracted battle in the UK over access to Alzheimer's drugs has finally ended, with the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) issuing its final technology appraisal for the medicines, which was updated in the light of the court case against Eisai and Pfizer, manufacturers and distributors of Aricept (donezepil).
NICE said it will uphold its original decision to ban the reimbursement of Aricept, plus Exelon (rivastigmine, Novartis) and Reminyl (galantamine, Shire), for patients in the early stages of Alzheimer's.
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go hereWonkette: Fox Video on Disgusting Dementia Comment Fox & Friends’ Brian Kilmeade made a terrible buffoon of himself on the television this morning! You know why the Olds get Dementia and Alzheimer’s, in America? This is why: “We are — we keep marrying other species and other ethnics and other … See, the problem is the Swedes have pure genes. Because they marry other Swedes …. Fins marry other Fins, so they have a pure society.”
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Language 'predicts dementia risk'"One possible implication of this study is that an intellectual ability test in the early 20s may predict the likelihood of remaining cognitively normal five or six decades later." -- Rebecca Wood, Alzheimer's Research Trust
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Inflammation may trigger Alzheimer's disease
The anti-inflammatory drug indomethacin could hold promise as a treatment for Alzheimer's disease, says a Saint Louis University doctor and researcher.
Two research studies published by William A. Banks, M.D., professor of geriatrics and pharmacological and physiological science at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, support this conclusion and offer what he calls a "one-two punch" in giving clues on how Alzheimer's disease develops and could be treated.
To continue reading go here
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My sister and I had inklings of a slow atrophying of my mother’s mind, perhaps of her very self, before she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in April, 2008. And yet, strangely, I’d also noticed around that time she’d seemed to be more “herself.” So I felt oddly reassured at the news. The diagnosis seemed to explain something about who my mother was, perhaps who she’d been most of my life. Due to its seeming genetic component, we believed the type to be early-onset. It could have started when I was still a kid.
To continue reading go here
Last NICE Word on Alzheimer's Meds
The protracted battle in the UK over access to Alzheimer's drugs has finally ended, with the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) issuing its final technology appraisal for the medicines, which was updated in the light of the court case against Eisai and Pfizer, manufacturers and distributors of Aricept (donezepil).
NICE said it will uphold its original decision to ban the reimbursement of Aricept, plus Exelon (rivastigmine, Novartis) and Reminyl (galantamine, Shire), for patients in the early stages of Alzheimer's.
To continue reading go here
Wonkette: Fox Video on Disgusting Dementia Comment
Fox & Friends’ Brian Kilmeade made a terrible buffoon of himself on the television this morning! You know why the Olds get Dementia and Alzheimer’s, in America? This is why: “We are — we keep marrying other species and other ethnics and other … See, the problem is the Swedes have pure genes. Because they marry other Swedes …. Fins marry other Fins, so they have a pure society.”
Go here if you want to see this disgusting comment on video.
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