Alzheimer's News

A workshop to educate community members about Alzheimer's disease is at 7 p.m. June 5 at New Life Episcopal Church, 13118 Church Ave.

The local Home Instead Senior Care office is offering a unique approach to help Elkin area families manage the challenges of Alzheimer's and other dementias, diseases that eventually rob seniors of their memories and independence.

Alzheimer's disease is a degenerative brain condition that affects mostly the elderly.

The Carol Strawn Center's Walk2Care4Alzheimer's 5K will be held Saturday, June 15, at the Rotary Park Pavilion, 925 Sharon Valley Road in Newark.

Volunteers are needed to help break a world record and bring awareness to the Alzheimer's epidemic.

A Washington University professor and a team of experts won a brainstorming competition that led the X Prize Foundation to raise a $50 million prize to motivate scientists and researchers to find effective treatments - and potentially a cure - for Alzheimer's disease.

Last year scientists reported that a skin cancer drug appeared to reverse the effects of an Alzheimer's-like disease in mice.

BITTERSWEET: Owen Schwilk wants more government funding so Alzheimer's disease sufferers can be cared for at home.

If you are one of the few who hasn't known or loved someone with Alzheimer's yet .

TALKING about dementia is still too tough for more than a third of local people, the Alzheimer's Society has warned.

Jane Marks , who is retiring as director of the Alzheimer's Association West Virginia chapter, hugs the group's board president, Jerry Walker, at the annual "Thanks for the Memories" luncheon on Thursday at the Charleston Marriott.

In the search for medication against Alzheimer's disease, scientists have focused - among other factors - on drugs that can break down Amyloid beta .

Pharmaceutical companies have been trying, without success so far , to concoct a drug that could stop the progression of Alzheimer's disease and dementia.

When was the last time you read a book, or a substantial magazine article? Do your daily reading habits center around tweets, Facebook updates, or the directions on your instant oatmeal packet? If you're one of countless people who don't make a habit of reading regularly, you might be missing out: reading has a significant number of benefits, and ... (more)

Approximately a year ago, the leading journal Science published an article about bexarotene as a potential Alzheimer's drug.

That is, according to Roshni George and Donald Graves, scientists at UC Santa Barbara.

An anti-cancer drug about to be tested in a clinical trial by a biomedical company in Ohio as a possible treatment for Alzheimer's disease has failed to work with the same type of brain plaques that plague Alzheimer's patients, according to results of a study by University of Florida researchers.

The research, funded by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Aging and Alzheimer's Association, reviewed previously published findings on the drug bexarotene, approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use in cutaneous T cell lymphoma.

Bexarotene, a cancer drug touted as a potential treatment for Alzheimer's disease, may not be the blockbuster remedy scientists were hoping for, according to several analyses published in Science on 24 May 1-4 . Four independent research groups report that they failed to fully replicate striking results published in the journal last year 5 by Gary ... (more)

U.S. scientists say a dramatic result last year suggesting that a cancer drug already approved by U.S. regulators could quickly clear out Alzheimer's plaques in mice was too good to be true.