Archive for the ‘Alzheimer's / Dementia’ Category
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Health and Care Minister Ivan Lewis today (Monday 21 July) announcedthe sites that will benefit from ￡80million of Government funding tobuild extra care housing, enabling more older people and those withdementia and long-term conditions to live in a home of their own. Hewill today be presenting the successful Barnsley extra ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
According to a study published in The Lancet,immunization against the amyloid-β peptide clears amyloid plaques inthe brain but fails to halt the progressive neurodegeneration thatcomes with Alzheimer's disease.The amyloid-β peptide accumulates in the brains of patients withAlzheimer's disease, and this engenders plaque formation. Researchershave shown that after immunizing mice with ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
Admiral Nurses welcome the key areas identified within the End of Life Care Strategy, which echo many of the overarching principles contained in the recently launched National Dementia Strategy consultation, and welcome, in particular, in both strategies the specific recognition of the needs of carers.Karen Harrison, spokesperson for Admiral Nursing ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
Alzheimer's Australia's major annual awareness campaign, Dementia Awareness Week, will kick off this year on Friday 19 September and conclude on Friday 26 September. The theme this year is 'Mind your Mind, and reduce the risk of dementia'. To mark Dementia Awareness Week, and to coincide with World ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
Greg A. Sachs, M.D., has received an award from the National Palliative Care Research Center to conduct a study aimed at improving quality of life and decreasing suffering for older adults and their family caregivers. The award is one of only two pilot project support grants funded by NPCRC in ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Recent findings that a mutant gene can cause abnormal overactivity in the immune system could be significant in the search for treatments of Huntington's disease (HD) and other degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, according to new research led by scientists at UCL (University College London) and published today ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Alzheimer's Society comment on a review of research studies investigating nicotine and dementia, which have been conducted over the last 5 years'Nicotine has previously been shown to help treat Alzheimer's disease in animal studies. This new review brings together evidence to explain the processes behind this and which types of ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Power3 Medical Products, Inc. (OTCBB:PWRM) announced the filing of a US Patent application for the diagnosis of multiple forms of Alzheimer's disease by monitoring a panel of protein biomarkers in human blood serum. This latest filing further extends the reach of the recently filed US Utility Patent Application that identified ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Minister Moloney welcomes the increase in funding for the Dementia Unit in St. Vincent's Hospital, Mountmellick.John Moloney T.D., Minister for Disability and Mental Health at the Department of Health and Children, welcomed confirmation that funding of 350k euros (700k euros full year) has been made available to recruit the core ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
A new dementia that is distinct from but resembles known forms of CJD, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, has been discovered in America, affecting 16 people, 10 of whom have died after gradually losing their mental and motor functions and being unable to think, speak or move.Yesterday's issue of New Scientist reported that ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
Dementia is one of the major challenges of the 21st century due to the enormous burden these disorders impose on health care systems. Recently, common pathways of the two most frequent causes of dementia, Alzheimer′s disease and vascular dementia have been suggested. Today there is tremendous interest in developing effective ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
OLIGOMERIX, Inc. announced receipt of a program related investment of $100K from the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF). The focus of the program is to select compounds using its proprietary Alzheimer's disease (AD) screening assays active against tau oligomers, and to evaluate these compounds in a tauopathy mouse model. ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
An apprentice style challenge will take the property world by storm as North London takes on South London to drum up funds for people with dementia and their carers on Tuesday 8 July. Jones Lang LaSalle staff at Clapham Junction and Finsbury Park tube stations will compete to get public ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
Applied NeuroSolutions, Inc. (OTC BB:APNS), a biotechnology Company focused on the development of products for the early diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease ("AD"), today announced the achievement of a key milestone directed to a multi-product program to develop serum-based diagnostic tests for Alzheimer's disease. APNS has ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Scientists in the UK and Canada have made a significant step forward in the search for new drugs to treat Alzheimer's disease.An ageing population means that neurodegeneration, such as Alzheimer's disease, is one of the major health problems in the developed world. But researchers at the University of York and ...
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