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Anchor lead: Does brain training help stave off Alzheimer’s disease? Elizabeth Tracey reports Education seems to produce a cognitive reserve, helping stave off clinical signs of Alzheimer’s disease even while the biological process continues, research by Rebecca Gottesman, a neurologist …
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Anchor lead: What is the link between education level and Alzheimer’s disease? Elizabeth Tracey reports People with more years of education seem to manifest Alzheimer’s disease less often than those with fewer years. Now a new study by Rebecca Gottesman, …
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Anchor lead: Who will treat all the people who are surviving cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports By 2030, there will be millions of people who’ve survived their cancer treatment, the American Cancer Society has just reported, and while that’s great news, …
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Anchor lead: A mouse model may point the way toward a better understanding of how Parkinson’s disease develops, Elizabeth Tracey reports A protein called synuclein that’s involved in nerve cell communication is thought to be the culprit in causing Parkinson’s …
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Anchor lead: A blood test for cancer may also be able to isolate the location, Elizabeth Tracey reports Looking at patterns of DNA fragments in the blood, Johns Hopkins researcher Victor Velculescu and colleagues have developed a new screening test …
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Anchor lead: Integrating several pieces of data may point the way toward early detection of Alzheimer’s disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports Cognitive testing, brain scans, and many other measures over twenty years in people at risk to develop Alzheimer’s disease may …
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Anchor lead: A new study may point the way to early detection of Alzheimer’s disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports Finding out that people are on the road to developing Alzheimer’s disease early may make intervening more effective, and a new test …
