Science Makes Strides Toward Alzheimer's Cure
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FRIDAY, Dec. 24 (HealthDay News) -- A new element has emerged in the seemingly never-ending battle against Alzheimer's disease: hope.
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Scientists have identified a group  of proteins that together indicate a person has Alzheimer's  disease in what may be a big step toward an accurate test for  the devastating brain ailment.
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Drinking a milkshake-style medicine at breakfast seems to feed brain cells starved from Alzheimer's damage, researchers reported Monday. It's one of four promising experimental drugs poised for large-scale testing against the brain-destroying disease.
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A way to combat Alzheimer&#39;s disease that uses a &quot;small&quot; molecule to block the accumulation of brain-clogging proteins is unveiled today.
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A new study will look at the brains  of Alzheimer's patients to see if various scans can chart the  disease and if new drugs can slow it down, doctors said on  Wednesday.
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FRIDAY, Sept. 24 (HealthDayNews) -- The use of gene therapy to deliver nerve growth factor into areas of the brain where neurons are degenerating, to reverse the ravages of Alzheimer's disease, is being investigated by Rush University Medical Center scientists.
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A new analysis may help detect the earliest signs of cell damage caused by Alzheimer's disease.
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NEW YORK  - Gene therapy might one day be  an effective treatment for Alzheimer's disease, new experiments  in mice suggest.
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NEW YORK  - Researchers may have hit upon a  strategy to prevent or treat Alzheimer's disease -- although  the technique has only been tested in the lab at this point.
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Drugs originally developed to treat Alzheimer&#39;s disease may also be effective in treating a kind of cancer that strikes hundreds of children every year, according to new research.
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Researchers think a combination of genes work together, maybe with other risk factors, to contribute to Alzheimerâs disease.
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Researchers may have hit upon a strategy to prevent or treat Alzheimer's disease -- although the technique has only been tested in the lab at this point.
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High-tech scans could identify the role of iron compounds in the development of diseases like Alzheimer's.
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Though Alzheimerâs disease seems to strike suddenly in old age, scientists think it begins long before symptoms occur.
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An experimental helmet is being tested by scientists as a treatment for Alzheimer's disease.
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Some types of blood pressure drugs that penetrate the brain may slow the deterioration of Alzheimerâs disease, according to a new study.
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US researchers find two potential targets for treating multiple sclerosis after studying proteins in the brain.