August 31st, 2007 by Richard Brassaw
There is no known cure for Alzheimer’s Disease. A great deal of research is driven with the goal to slow down the disease’s progress and a Weill Cornell team believe they have found a novel approach. What makes the Weill Cornell’s researchers approach unique is that it involves a drug that has been used for [...]
August 30th, 2007 by Richard Brassaw
Neurochem thought their Alzheimer’s disease drug, Alzhemed, would put them on the map with an anticipated annual sales of $4.5US billion. Clinical trials on Alzheimer’s patients in early to middle stages of the disease were tracked over an 18 month period. During that period the drug showed no discernible difference when compared to the group taking [...]
August 29th, 2007 by Richard Brassaw
Most guidelines suggest that Fibromyalgia affects people over 40 and affects 9 times as many women as men. It might be time to revise that traditional thinking according to a Daily Mail article. A recent study found 6% of school age children in Mexico, Finland, and Israel reported muscular pain. Often when school age children [...]
August 28th, 2007 by Richard Brassaw
Alzheimer’s disease is thought to be connected with neurons in the memory center of the brain that are choked as a result of the buildup of two types of proteins: tau protein, which turns destructive when aberrant forms of the protein form fibrous tangles, and amyloid beta, which produces an amyloid plaque. The NYU Medical Center researchers focused their attention on [...]
August 27th, 2007 by Richard Brassaw
While tremors, slowness, and coordination problems are generally associated with Parkinson’s disease, approximately 30-40% of Parkinson’s patients also suffer from dementia. In fact, Dementia in Parkinson’s patients is the leading reason for their placement in nursing homes. An ongoing Mayo Clinic study found that Parkinson’s patients may experience cognitive problems before developing dementia. The study found that 22% [...]
August 26th, 2007 by Richard Brassaw
Laboratory for Advanced Brain Signal Processing (Japan) has an unique non-invasive approach for the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease. Using EEG recordings, the researchers tested two groups of subjects. One group has the mild form of Alzheimer’s disease, while the other does not have any cognitive impairment. Both groups are approximately the same age. By comparing test [...]
August 25th, 2007 by Richard Brassaw
CNN Money recently ran a Dow Jones Newswire story about Eli Lilly’s recent study using Cymbalta for reducing pain in fibromyalgia patients.* Eli Lilly’s study claims that after one week fibromyalgia patients using Cymbalta had less pain than the control group taking a placebo. After three months, fibromyalgia patients receiving Cymbalta experienced significantly greater reduction in [...]
August 24th, 2007 by Richard Brassaw
Columbia University Medical Center researchers have found a brain network within the frontal lobe that is associated with cognitive reserve and is thought to delay the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. Cognitive reserve is developed by regularly “exercising” the brain by engaging in mentally-stimulating activities such as taking classes, doing a daily crossword puzzle, or volunteering. There [...]
August 23rd, 2007 by Richard Brassaw
Korean researchers believe that a daily hour-long brisk walk may be able to stave off the onset of Parkinson’s disease. They found that Parkinson’s infected mice forced to walk delayed the loss of dopamine neurons. Although, they do not proffer empirical data to support their suggestion of a daily hour-long brisk walk to delay the onset of [...]
August 22nd, 2007 by Richard Brassaw
Karen Kaplan’s August 18, Los Angeles Times article, U.S. military practices genetic discrimination in denying benefits, tells how the U.S. Military denies disability benefits to both active and veteran military personnel. The problem began in 1999, when the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) decided that soldiers with a genetic predisposition for a disease will be denied benefits for [...]
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