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Fact Or Myth: Some Herbs Help With Alzheimer's Disease

In the many well-funded marketing claims of homeopaths and 'alternative' medicine claims, including a US government program that spends $120 million a year legitimizing treatments that don't work , what can easily get lost is data about what natural ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 15 2013 - 12:53pm - 0 attachments

Could A Treatment For Parkinson’s Reverse The Effects Of Early Life Trauma?

A stressful pregnancy might be the last thing a future mother needs, but it is to her unborn baby that this stress spells real trouble. All because stress hormones (called glucocorticoids or GCs) can disrupt foetal brain development, leading to serious ...

Article - Catarina Amorim - Oct 28 2013 - 4:47am - 0 attachments

11 New Genes Proposed For Alzheimer's Drug Discovery

... It also has been associated with multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease, suggesting that the diseases where abnormal proteins ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 27 2013 - 1:49pm - 0 attachments

Diuretics, Other Blood Pressure Drugs, Linked To Decreased Risk Of Alzheimer's

A new analysis of data on over 3,000 elderly Americans strongly suggests that people over the age of 75 with normal cognition who used diuretics, angiotensin-1 receptor blockers (ARBs) and angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors showed a reduced ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 17 2013 - 9:09am - 0 attachments

Retired Football Player Brain Scans Show Profound Abnormalities

... of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease but the new results suggest that players also face a risk ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 17 2013 - 9:35am - 0 attachments

A Pig, A Fish And A Jellyfish Walk Into A Bar With A Nervous Disorder...

... forms of diseases affecting the nervous system, such as Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, autism, epilepsy and the motor ... of pig models of neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's. The reason scientists bring a pig into the equation is that the ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 17 2013 - 10:18am - 0 attachments

The People Side Of GMO Crops: Part I

As with any new technology, the development and commercialization of biotech crops is a story about people.  Its a story about people with ideas and vision; people who did hard and creative work; people who took career or business risks, and peop ...

Article - Steve Savage - Oct 8 2013 - 12:08am - 0 attachments

Halting neurodegeneration in mice — a possible cure for Alzheimer's?

Discovery ‘could hold key to Alzheimer’s treatment’ New on the BBC web site today (10 th October 2013).  The discovery of the first chemical to prevent the death of brain tissue in a neurodegenerative disease has been hailed ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Oct 10 2013 - 2:29am - 0 attachments

Predicting The Past Isn’t As Easy As It Sounds

A recent article discussed the question of causation versus statistical association in cross-sectional epidemiology studies that evaluate the potential for chemicals to cause health effects.   In this type of study, ...

Article - Steve Hentges - Oct 1 2013 - 12:49pm - 0 attachments

Protein Phosphorylation Not The Culprit In Parkinson's Disease - Study

It is generally accepted that Parkinson's disease is aggravated when a specific protein is transformed by an ... protect against the progression of the disease.  Parkinson's disease is characterized by the accumulation of a protein known as ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 26 2013 - 4:21pm - 0 attachments