With recent developments in stem cell research opening up the enormous potential for advancing the field of regenerative medicine, researchers are exploring ways that stem cell therapeutics may prove able to treat and possibly even reverse effects of debilitating diseases such as Alzheimer’s, type 1 diabetes and muscular dystrophy. Professionals…
Burlingame, California based mobile platform company Fanfare Entertainment has partnered with Muses Labs to help develop, optimize, and market a next-generation personalized combination therapy for treatment and prevention of Alzheimer’s disease. The MEND (metabolic enhancement for neurodegeneration) Protocol is designed to enable Alzheimer’s disease patients, their caregivers, family members, and…
Samsung Tomorrow, the Samsung Electronics Official Global Blog, reports that about a year ago Samsung Electronics Tunisia (SETN) marketing manager for mobile products Azer Jaafoura and several colleagues began developing a smartphone app for helping out Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) patients. “We wanted to make life easier for Alzheimer’s patients…
The Alzheimer’s Association and the American College of Radiology (ACR) have jointly announced the launch of new four-year research study that will determine the clinical usefulness of brain positron emission tomography (PET) in diagnosing Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and other dementias in certain instances where such scans can detect a…
Currently incurable, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is projected by the Centers for Disease Control to afflict some 13.8 million people in the U.S. by 2050 if effective new treatments are not discovered. Already, millions of U.S. residents are living with severe, disabling, and progressively degenerative Alzheimer’s-related dementia. Dr. Thomas…
Researchers at the UCSD and Creighton University at Omaha, Nebraska say the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Institute of Medicine (IOM)’s Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for vitamin D intake is miscalculated and underestimated — not by any small measure, but by a whopping factor of ten.
Scientists at Australia’s University of Queensland have found that non-invasive ultrasound technology can be used to break up neurotoxic amyloid plaques that cause memory loss and cognitive decline in persons afflicted with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), which affects more than two-thirds of dementia patients. The discovery is elucidated in a paper…
A team of Mexican scientists have developed a skin test that may provide an enhanced perspective on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, according to a study scheduled for presentation at The 67th American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Annual Meeting to be held April 18-25, 2015, at the Walter…
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida based Bluvision has announced a collaborative venture with wearable technologies innovator GTX Corp., a company that specializes in the development of personal location devices, to create solutions for location tracking those with memory cognitive disorders like Alzheimer’s and other forms of Dementia, as well as persons…
Biotech industry veteran Tony Coles, M.D. has launched a new startup — Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Yumanity Therapeutics. Founded in December 2014, the new company’s central focus is on drug discovery for diseases caused by a DNA anomaly called “protein misfolding.” Yumanity Therapeutics’ founders include by Dr. Coles, who is…
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