Showing results for "#Alzheimer’s disease"
New highly accurate blood test to measure progress of Alzheimer’s
While currently available blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease can diagnose the disease, they do not indicate the clinical stage of the disease...
Scientists find 1st evidence of medically acquired Alzheimer’s
30 Jan 2024 2:45 PM ISTAlzheimer’s disease is caused by the amyloid-beta protein, and is usually a sporadic condition of late adult life, or more rarely an inherited...
In Memoriam: Arno Penzias, Nobel physicist who confirmed Big Bang...
24 Jan 2024 3:00 PM ISTDr. Penzias (pronounced PEN-zee-as) shared one-half of the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics with Robert Woodrow Wilson for their discovery in 1964 of...
Not just protein clumping, overall brain health better predictor of...
25 Dec 2023 4:00 PM ISTThe researchers found a steady increase in the clumping of amyloid proteins, or amyloid accumulation, in the participants’ brains with time
Alzheimer’s dementia: Scientists find new clues among the elderly
24 Dec 2023 3:18 PM ISTWhile people who are 80 and older have the highest prevalence of Alzheimer’s-associated dementias, most studies that measured A-beta burden in the...
High metabolism may be early sign of Alzheimer's disease: Study
3 Nov 2023 11:21 AM ISTAlzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia and strikes about 20,000 people in Sweden every year.
Eisai-Biogen’s new injectable Alzheimer's drug shows promise
28 Oct 2023 9:15 AM ISTLeqembi is the first and only treatment approved in Japan and the US shown to reduce the rate of disease progression and to slow cognitive and...
Telecare lowers costs, improves quality of life for dementia patients:...
19 Sept 2023 9:46 AM ISTThe Care Ecosystem was implemented by UCSF in 2014 and has since been replicated by more than 25 organizations, including health systems, and...