Archives - Monday 08 September 2008
EMEA Releases Guidelines On Development Of Medicines For Parkinson’s Disease
Published on Monday 08 September 2008 - 23:31 - http://myparkinsonsinformation.com/The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has released two guidelines for companies developing medicines for the treatment of Alzheimer s disease and other dementias, and for Parkinson s disease, in the...
Palin raises hope for parents of disabled kids
Published on Monday 08 September 2008 - 20:14 - http://www.dailynewstribune.com/In her address to the Republican National Convention, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin had a special message for families with special-needs children: "I pledge to you that if we are...
Medivation's Attitude Warrants a Pullback
Published on Monday 08 September 2008 - 18:29 - http://seekingalpha.com/Medivation (MDVN) stock spiked last week due to a deal with Pfizer (PFE) for Alzheimer's and Huntington's disease treatment Dimebon, currently in late-stage trials that are due to be completed in...
Study shows obesity can cause neurodegeneration
Published on Monday 08 September 2008 - 15:30 - http://www.sciencecentric.com/New research from Rhode Island Hospital found that obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) can contribute to mild neurodegeneration with features common with Alzheimer's disease (AD) - the...
Pfizer And Medivation Agreement To Co-Develop And Market Dimebon For Alzheimer's And Huntington's Diseases Treatment
Published on Monday 08 September 2008 - 09:00 - http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/Pfizer Inc (NYSE: PFE) and Medivation, Inc.(NASDAQ: MDVN) announced today that they have entered into an agreement to develop and commercialize Dimebon, Medivation's investigational drug for...
Alzheimer Support Group Meetings for September -- 09/08/08 at Boulevard Baptist Church Christian Activity Center
Published on Monday 08 September 2008 - 06:34 - http://independentmail.com/Alzheimer Support Group Meetings for September -- 09/08/08 at Boulevard Baptist Church Christian Activity Center
Researchers seeking to identify Alzheimer's risk focus on specific blood biomarker
Published on Monday 08 September 2008 - 06:00 - http://www.eurekalert.org/A simple blood test to detect whether a person might develop Alzheimer's disease is within sight and could eventually help scientists in their quest toward reversing the disease's onset in those...
Memory enhanced by sports-cheat drug
Published on Monday 08 September 2008 - 06:00 - http://www.eurekalert.org/A drug used to increase blood production in both medical treatments and athletic doping scandals seems also to improve memory in those using it. New research published in the open access journal...
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION: Correlating Cerebral Hypometabolism With Future Memory Decline in Subsequent Converters to Amnestic Pre-Mild Cognitive...
Published on Monday 08 September 2008 - 02:00 - http://archneur.ama-assn.org/Background Before symptomatic memory loss, healthy apolipoprotein E 4 (APOE 4) (OMIM 104310) carriers demonstrate accelerated longitudinal decline on memory tests, suggesting the existence of a...
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION: Role of the Neuropathology of Alzheimer Disease in Dementia in the Oldest-Old
Published on Monday 08 September 2008 - 02:00 - http://archneur.ama-assn.org/Background Neuritic plaques (NPs) and neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) in the brain, especially in the hippocampus, entorhinal cortex, and isocortex, are hallmark lesions of Alzheimer disease and...
