Topic: Alzheimer'S Disease
The first shoes with built-in GPS devices -- to help track down dementia-suffering seniors who wander off and get lost -- are set to hit the US market this month, the manufacturer says.GTX Corp said the first batch of 3,000 pairs of ...
(Reuters) - An experimental drug being developed by Roche Holding AG removed amyloid plaques from the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients in a small early-stage study, according to data published in the Archives of Neurology, the Swiss drugmaker said on Monday.Many researchers ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A daily spritz of insulin in the nose helped improve memory skills in people with Alzheimer's-linked memory problems, U.S. researchers said on Monday.Patients in a small study -- who include people with mild to moderate Alzheimer's and a pre-Alzheimer's ...
Inherited forms of Alzheimer's disease is likely detectable up to 20 years before loss of memory and impaired thinking appear, according to a study released Wednesday.Measurable changes in brain chemistry show up years before these signature symptoms of the degenerative brain disease ...
PARIS (Reuters) - Experimental Alzheimer's drug bapineuzumab, from Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson , may be safer than originally thought, according to two studies by U.S. researchers released on Wednesday.They said that a brain swelling condition called vasogenic edema, which caused a ...
PARIS (Reuters) - As a boy, Gary Reiswig would take his grandfather by the hand and guide him on walks around the family farm in western Oklahoma. At 5, Gary knew to avoid the prairie dog town, fearful that his grandfather might ...
PARIS (Reuters) - Alzheimer's is the second-most feared disease after cancer and many people say they would seek testing for themselves or a loved one even if they did not have symptoms, U.S. and European researchers said on Wednesday.The findings, presented at ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Two antidepressants that are commonly given to Alzheimer's disease patients appear not only to be ineffective but may give side effects such as nausea and drowsiness, a study in Britain has found.In a paper published in the medical ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Two antidepressants that are commonly given to Alzheimer's disease patients appear not only to be ineffective but may give side effects such as nausea and drowsiness, a study in Britain has found.In a paper published in the medical ...
PARIS (Reuters) - People at risk for Alzheimer's are twice as likely to fall as healthy people, and the disease might also be visible in scans of the eye, researchers said on Sunday.The preliminary results, presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference ...
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2009 Rita Hayworth Alzheimer's Gala
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