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Alzheimer’s Notes

May 13th, 2008

Pain Meds Provide No Relief to Alzheimer’s.

It was thought that the Celebrex, an arthritis drug and Aleve, an over-the-counter painkiller might help prevent Alzheimer’s disease or at least slow mental decline in older people. But new studies show that taking these medications provides no benefit on a person’s thinking skills.
In fact, government experiments with these two drugs wsa stopped back in […]

By Liz Lewis -- 1 comment

January 28th, 2008

Alzheimer’s News from Around the World.

UK to use new tool to test for Alzheimer’s - “Researchers at the University of Kentucky’s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging will soon begin conducting clinical trials for a Louisville company that is developing an early screening tool for Alzheimer’s disease.” (more)
Alzheimers Research Target May Be a Dead End - “A once-promising pathway for research into […]

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