Category: Alzheimer’s Disease And Dementia

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Something called the blood brain barrier prevents many things, including most drugs, from entering your brain. Now a new study that disrupts the barrier using ultrasound seems to have shown that antibodies to treat Alzheimer’s disease can gain entry this …

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Monoclonal antibodies for Alzheimer’s disease, like the drug called Aduhelm, attach to aberrant proteins thought to be one cause of the disease, but they only stand to benefit a small number of the people who might be at risk. That’s …

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Aduhelm is a type of drug called a monoclonal antibody, and it’s used to remove some of the aberrant proteins thought to cause Alzheimer’s disease. Lolita Nidadavolu, a geriatrics expert at Johns Hopkins, says there is much to consider when …

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Men who reported taking sildenafil for erectile dysfunction also had a reduced risk for Alzheimer’s disease, a recent study looking at a large number of medical records found. What about women? Johns Hopkins geriatrics expert Lolita Nidadavolu, who wrote an …

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Sildenafil, taken for erectile dysfunction, seems to have helped reduce Alzheimer’s disease risk in men. Would the drug have the same impact on women, and what might the side effects look like? Lolita Nidadavolu, a geriatrics expert at Johns Hopkins …

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