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A team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Cenna Biosciences, Inc. were able to identify in mice, compounds that inhibit the production of beta amyloid peptides. The results published in the journal PLOS ONE may offer a potential early intervention for…

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 National League for Nursing’s Advancing Care Excellence for Seniors (ACE.S) is committed to preparing nurses so that they can provide high quality and culturally sensitive care to older adults with dementia such as Alzheimer’s disease. According to a recent report by the John A. Hartford Foundation, one of the…

According to a recent press release, MIT will release the results of a novel report that examined the impact of a decline in investment by the U.S. federal government in basic research. Newspersons can attend the event, which will take place in Washington, D.C. During the event, there will be…

Researchers at the University of Glasgow recently published in the journal Future Science OA a comprehensive review regarding the inhibition of beta-amyloid production as a therapeutic strategy for patients with Alzheimer’s disease. The study is entitled “The role and therapeutic targeting of α-, β—…

According to a recent study published in the journal Neurology, sleep apnea and heavy snoring may be related to thinking and memory decline at an early age. Results from this research also indicate that the decline may be delayed with the use of a breathing machine. “Abnormal…

Voyko Kavcic, Ph.D., a Research Assistant Professor in the Institute of Gerontology at Wayne State University received a grant from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study earlier diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The grant consists of $420,000 over two years…

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…

A new study published in the Journal of Neuroscience revealed that specific immune cells and degradation of a nutrient called arginine might be linked to Alzheimer’s disease development. The study was performed by researchers at Duke University Medical Center, the West Virginia University School…

Last year, as part of a large nationwide study, Scott Turner, MD, PhD., neurologist at Georgetown University, began to enroll participants with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease and found that a major part of the study participants had undiagnosed glucose intolerance. As Dr. Turner said in a recent news release, he…