The words ‘I have dementia’ meant Bill Wilson could collect a prescription for his month-old grandson. Using a pocket-sized helpcard carrying this phrase, Mr Wilson was able to take home the medication while the pharmacist called a relative to explain the dosage.
The UK Department of Health announced ?45m in funding for 29 important and substantial research programmes as part of the National Institute for Health Research into areas such as mental health, medicines for children, diabetes, stroke, and dementias, neurodegenerative diseases and neurology.
Individuals with diabetes may have a higher risk of developing mild cognitive impairment, a condition that involves difficulties with thinking and learning and may be an intermediate step toward Alzheimer’s disease, according to a report in the April issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
The Friends of the Alzheimer?s Disease Center will hold its Spring Public Forum on April 24 at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
A Saint Louis University physician-scientist and author of a new book on how herbs, supplements, foods, vitamins and medications affect the body is researching whether an omega-3 fatty acid found in certain fish slows the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.
43 people, including 11 children, were told in Auckland that they were operated on with the same surgical instruments as a woman diagnosed as having symptoms consistent with sporadic CJD.
A new medical device in development by University of Cincinnati researchers may sniff out olfactory disorders that could be an early warning of Alzheimer?s disease, Parkinson?s disease and other problems outside the typical sensory loss associated with aging.
Many Alzheimer’s patients are dying earlier because of sedatives they are being prescribed, according to new groundbreaking research from the Alzheimer’s Research Trust.
Patients with moderate to severe sleep apnea who have significantly higher serum levels of inflammatory markers that serve as precursors to coronary artery disease, as well as lesions associated with silent brain infarction, have an elevated risk of stroke, according to a group of Japanese medical researchers.
Researchers at Yale and at Johns Hopkins, led by Barry Gordon, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of Therapeutic Cognitive Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins, have found that a simple blood test to measure uric acid, a measure of kidney function, might reveal a risk factor for cognitive problems and dementia in old age.