Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's Vaccine Is Showing Promise By the end of 1999, scientists plan to begin injecting a small group of U.S. volunteers with a vaccine against Alzheimer's disease...

Can a Rooster's Comb be the Key to Treating Osteoarthritis? A treatment for arthritis found in the rooster's comb Joints are the place where two moving bones come together and are designed to protect bone ends from wearing away and to absorb shock from movements like walking or repetitive movements. Cartilage is...

Abnormal stress response linked to Alzheimer's disease The increased vulnerability to stress of brain cells in Alzheimer's disease results from changes in the level of specific protective proteins, report Japanese researchers...

Cognitive Decline Among Elderly Is Underestimated Declining intellectual function among people over age 75 has been previously underestimated...

An Important Alternative Treatment for People with Epilepsy An electrical pacemaker implanted under the collar bone with wires that lead not down to the heart, but upwards to finally wrap around the vagus nerve. Once in place, an electric pulse is generated and relayed to the brain to control seizures. It ...

Estrogen reduces aggression in demented patients Estrogen therapy safely reduces aggression among elderly patients who have dementia, according to preliminary study findings...

Engineering Body Parts From Scratch Today, a doctor treating a diabetic's hard-to-heal foot ulcer can open a sterile plastic bag, take out a swatch of artificial skin containing two layers of living human cells, and apply it to the wound to speed its healing...

Estrogen May Protect Against Early-onset Alzheimer's Experts have long suspected that estrogen therapy helps to prevent Alzheimer's disease in postmenopausal women...

Imaging Test Might Detect Signs Of Alzheimer's Scientists have moved a step closer to developing a test that would detect Alzheimer's disease...

Alzheimer's Disease And Age-related Vision Loss Linked Alzheimer's disease and a disease that causes vision loss, called age-related macular degeneration, may share common origins, according to Dutch scientists...