According to an announcement from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the agency has recently approved a new therapy for Alzheimer's disease. While this is a significant moment for…
A healthy brain translates into a healthy blood-brain barrier (BBB) which is a complex series of blood vessels in the brain. When the BBB malfunctions, it may lead to diabetes,…
According to a recent press release, scientists studying the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences' (USU) The American Genome Center (TAGC) identified five genes which could play a role…
Welcome to Study of the Week from Patient Worthy. In this segment, we select a study we posted about from the previous week that we think is of particular interest…
In a press release from the FDA; the FDA has new recommendations for a common mercury-based filling, dental amalgams. While the mercury in the tooth treatment isn't significant enough to…
A recent article in Science News highlighted a discovery by Richard Seifes, M.D. of Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Seifes has discovered the origin of a liver disease that…
Last week, clinical stage biopharmaceutical company Neurotrope announced that the first patient was dosed in a Phase 2 clinical trial to test the safety, efficacy, and tolerability of bryostatin-1…
A blood test that gives a more accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease was announced at the July 2020 International Conference of the Alzheimer’s Association. The Association estimates that approximately…
According to a recent article in BioSpace, Biogen and Eisai have launched a new preclinical Phase III trial of BAN2401 to treat pre-clinical Alzheimer's disease. The new study follows…
As reported in Parkinson's News Today, an investigational therapy to treat patients with Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson’s disease has had its Phase 2 trial approved by the central institutional review…
Parkinson’s News Today recently published an article containing new information about biomarkers in Alzheimer’s disease that can be linked to the early stages of Parkinson’s disease. Many people with…
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Neurotrope is launching a long term Phase 2 trial of Bryostatin-1, which is a treatment for Alzheimer's disease. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will be joining this study, giving…
According to MedPage Today, carriers of the gene variation APOE4 are much more at risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. However, researchers found that one copy of the Klotho gene mutation,…
In February 2020, Epigenetics published results of a study reporting that researchers have found an early sign of Alzheimer’s disease in DNA modification (methylation) that had been overlooked. Patients…
For years scientists have tried to understand how and why tau, well known to researchers for its implication in Alzheimer’s disease, changes from its normal form to a harmful…
The publication Being Patient tracks the latest news about Alzheimer’s disease. This month it published an article about a new Alzheimer’s clinical trial that is being conducted with the…
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According to an article in the Alzheimer’s publication Being Patient, participants who had been enrolled in the discontinued phase three trials of aducanumab will start receiving the drug as…
It has been evident to scientists for years that Alzheimer’s disease, which affects about five million people in the U.S., is caused by an accumulation of two proteins within…
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A Colombian family with more than six thousand living family members was the focus of researchers at several institutes in the U.S. and Columbia. According to an article published by…
According to a publication from Impact Lab, clinical testing for a new kind of Alzheimer's treatment is slated to begin at Weill Cornell Medicine (Cornell University's medical school) in Manhattan…
In the early 1900s, German psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer, while studying about the decline in brain function, recognized a correlation between behavioral changes and the buildup of tangles and plaques in…
It started slowly. Mom left her purse at the grocery store. She forgot to turn off the stove and scorched the tea kettle. Frequently, she began a task, such as…
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