Alzheimer’s News From Around the World.
March 8, 2008 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
US review finds no good drugs for dementia – “There are no good drugs to treat dementia and doctors just need to try them in a hit-or-miss fashion to try to help patients, according to new guidelines released on Monday.” (more…
Groundbreaking Alzheimer’s Research Happening At UW Hospital – “The goal of the research is to try to identify Alzheimer’s disease before symptoms start occurring, and researchers believe to do that, they must look at the brain. That’s exactly what Dr. Sterling Johnson is doing. He’s been doing work where healthy people — both with a family history of Alzheimer’s disease and without — have MRIs done while performing memory tasks.” (more…)
Antibiotics Frequently Given To Patients With Advanced Dementia - “A new study by researchers in the US found that people with advanced dementia are frequently given antibiotics toward the end of life, and has thrown into question whether this practice should be curtailed in view of the increased risk of developing drug resistant superbugs.” (more…)
Cancer-Related Protein May Play Key Role In Alzheimer’s Disease – “The cancer-related protein Akt may profoundly influence the fate of the tau protein, which forms bundles of tangled nerve cell fibers in the brain associated with Alzheimer’s disease, reports a new study led by researchers at the University of South Florida and the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL.” (more…)
