Archives - Monday 03 November 2008
Diabetes, Hypertension Hasten Death in Alzheimer's Patients
Published on Monday 03 November 2008 - 23:00 - http://www.healthcentral.com/They're more than twice as likely to die sooner, study finds
Vitamin B12 and your Brain
Published on Monday 03 November 2008 - 19:11 - http://blog.nutritiondata.com/November is Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month--but there's not a whole lot of good news to report. Despite lots of research, we don't seem to be making much progress towards more effective...
Asleep or Awake, Brain Functions the Same
Published on Monday 03 November 2008 - 17:26 - http://news.health.com/FRIDAY, Oct. 31 (HealthDay News) — The mind functions essentially the same when asleep as when awake, a new study shows.'The discovery, reported in the online journal Human Brain Mapping, could...
Binge drinkers' dementia risk
Published on Monday 03 November 2008 - 13:05 - http://www.nhs.uk/The Daily Mail warns that, “binge drinkers are putting themselves at risk of Alzheimer's in later life”. The newspaper states that doctors have claimed that increasing levels of drinking could lead...
New Genetic Clues to Alzheimer’s Cause Found
Published on Monday 03 November 2008 - 12:39 - http://www.healthnews.com/Scientists continue to look for the cause or causes of Alzheimer s disease in genetics, lifestyle, and injuries to the head. Alzheimer s is the most common type of dementia, and generally occurs in...
Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset: More Alzheimer Patients Receive 'Protein Factory' Brain Implants
Published on Monday 03 November 2008 - 12:00 - http://www.redorbit.com/Clinical testing of a new, innovative method to treat Alzheimer's disease began in March 2008 at Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm. (See press release from April 7, 2008:...
Hoorray Supports Alzheimer Research by Donating $1 for Every FREE Photo Album Claimed
Published on Monday 03 November 2008 - 10:22 - http://www.prweb.com/Hoorray, the easiest photo sharing site on the Internet, will donate $1 for every FREE Photo Album claimed during November through the Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Research Foundation website,...
4 new genes linked to Alzheimer`s disease
Published on Monday 03 November 2008 - 08:55 - http://mathaba.net/U.S. researchers have identified four genes which may be linked to the most common form of the late-onset Alzheimer`s disease, a new study showed. more... | PDA
Shaun Gatter: Campaign Journal: Canvassing for Mandela and Obama in Bristol, PA
Published on Monday 03 November 2008 - 08:21 - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/Shaun Gatter is an OffTheBus Grassroots Correspondent. Each week he contributes a campaign journal documenting his life out on the trail. Growing up in apartheid...
Brightcove Bonds With AOL, Faces Competition With Akamai; Fidelity Backs EnVivo; Dyax to Sell Up To $50M in Stock; & More Boston-Area Deals News
Published on Monday 03 November 2008 - 06:13 - http://www.xconomy.com/If you re like me, you re to the point where you can t focus for more than two sentences without pausing to check FiveThirtyEight.com and Intrade, so I kept the roundup of Boston-area deals short...
