Alzheimers

Die Food and Drug Administration hat am Montag das erste neue Medikament gegen die Alzheimer-Krankheit seit fast zwei Jahrzehnten genehmigt, eine umstrittene Entscheidung, die trotz des Widerstands des unabhängigen Beratungsausschusses der…

The Food and Drug Administration approved Biogen's Alzheimer's drug aducanumab on Monday, making it the first U.S. regulator-approved drug to slow cognitive decline in people with Alzheimer's and the first new drug for the disease in nearly…

Die Food and Drug Administration hat am Montag das erste neue Medikament gegen die Alzheimer-Krankheit seit fast zwei Jahrzehnten genehmigt, eine umstrittene Entscheidung, die trotz des Widerstands des unabhängigen Beratungsausschusses der…

Die Food and Drug Administration steht kurz davor, eine ihrer umstrittensten Entscheidungen seit Jahren bekannt zu geben: das Schicksal eines Alzheimer-Medikaments, das die erste zugelassene Behandlung nach fast zwei Jahrzehnten…

"We went into the study thinking we could see these financial indicators," said Lauren Hersch Nicholas, co-author of the study, associate professor of public health at the University of Colorado. “But we were kind of surprised and upset…

While the nurses came to change Peggy's bedding, I spoke to her nurse in the hallway. When Peggy arrived at this facility about two weeks earlier, she had pressure ulcers on her heels and lower back. In Peggy's room, her nurse changed her…

Is it possible to predict who will develop Alzheimer's disease by looking at writing patterns years before symptoms appear?According to a new study by IBM researchers, the answer is yes.And she and others say Alzheimer's is just the…

In a small clinical trial, an experimental Alzheimer's drug slowed the rate at which patients lost the ability to think and care for themselves, drug maker Eli Lilly announced on Monday.The results have not been published in any form and…

Every brain donation does not begin in a hospital morgue, but in a large and well-stocked funeral home. The arrangement allows researchers to remove the brain and quickly take it one block away to their dissection laboratory, after which…