Alzheimer’s Disease: Human cells could be gene-edited to reduce risk

Human brain cells could be gene-edited to reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, scientists claim Researchers are examining methods to alter genes within the human brain This genetic variant could reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease The variant is found naturally in one in 150 people living in Scandinavia  Future techniques could see the … Read more

Human cells could be edited to reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, scientists claim 

Human brain cells could be gene-edited to reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, scientists claim Researchers are examining methods to alter genes within the human brain This genetic variant could reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease The variant is found naturally in one in 150 people living in Scandinavia  Future techniques could see the … Read more

Anxiety ‘speeds up the onset of Alzheimer’s’ in people already suffering with cognitive decline

Anxiety can cause someone suffering from cognitive decline to develop full blown Alzheimer’s more quickly than someone not suffering with anxiety, study finds.  Medical University of South Carolina researchers obtained MRI scans for 339 patients with an average age of 72 and diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment.    The US team found a clear link between the … Read more

Exercising once a week is linked to a lower risk of developing Alzheimer’s

Exercising once a week could lower your risk of developing Alzheimer’s – even if you already have memory and thinking problems People with a condition known as mild cognitive impairment were examined They are 10 times more likely to develop Alzheimer’s than the general public Those who engage in exercise had an 18 per cent … Read more

Millie Bobby Brown pens tribute to her grandmother who has died from Alzheimer’s

Millie Bobby Brown pens beautiful tribute to her grandmother who died from Alzheimer’s… as she reveals she had to say goodbye on FaceTime due to COVID-19 By Dailymail.com Reporter Published: 00:38 GMT, 11 November 2020 | Updated: 00:40 GMT, 11 November 2020 Stranger Things actress Millie Bobby Brown shared a heartbreaking tribute to her grandmother … Read more

Incredible moment former prima ballerina now suffering from Alzheimer’s is transformed

Incredible moment former prima ballerina suffering from Alzheimer’s was transformed when she heard music from Swan Lake Marta C Gonzalez, who died in 2019, is shown at a care home in Valencia  She is visibly moved as Tschaikovsky’s Swan Lake begins to play on headphones  Ms Gonzalez remembers the choreography that she danced to in … Read more

FDA set to approve a new Alzheimer’s drug for the first time in nearly 20 years

FDA set to approve a new Alzheimer’s drug – a first in nearly 20 years – by March after Biogen showed its treatment may slow the progress of the memory disease U.S. regulators will review the drug, called aducanumab, for approval on Friday  They released documents on the treatment on Wednesday and said the drug’s … Read more

Blazing Saddles actress Carol Arthur has died at 85… after 11-year battle with Alzheimer’s disease

Blazing Saddles actress Carol Arthur has died at 85… after 11-year battle with Alzheimer’s disease By Dailymail.com Reporter Published: 23:30 GMT, 2 November 2020 | Updated: 23:34 GMT, 2 November 2020 Blazing Saddles actress Carol Arthur has died aged 85, after an 11-year-battle with Alzheimer’s disease.  Arthur was the widow of comedian Dom DeLuise, and starred … Read more

Nobby Stiles dies at 78 after Alzheimer’s battle as fans mourn icon

England 1966 hero Nobby Stiles has died aged 78 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia. Tributes have flooded in to the man who was the ‘heart and soul’ of the England team and was also part of the Manchester United side which became the first English club to win the European Cup … Read more

Actor Ryan O’Neal FaceTimes Love Story fan living with Alzheimer’s to say goodnight in person

Heart-melting moment actor Ryan O’Neal FaceTimes a Love Story fan living with Alzheimer’s to say goodnight in person after learning she kisses his picture every night Erica Steiner’s mother Robin met her favorite actor over video call on October 23 Ryan O’Neal, 79, said time ‘flew by’ and it’s been ’50 years’ since movie released … Read more