Category: Alzheimer’s Disease And Dementia
A blood test looking for your DNA is proving increasingly useful, Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Some cancer tests and prenatal assessments already use DNA found circulating in someone’s blood to look for certain cancers or assure the health of a fetus. Now Peter Abadir, a geriatrics expert at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues are using such …
Your own genetic material from two cellular locations can be found in your blood, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Can a novel way to get antibodies into the brain help Alzheimer’s disease? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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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 …
Only a small percentage of people are candidates for monoclonal antibodies to treat Alzheimer’s disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Who is a candidate for monoclonal antibodies for Alzheimer’s disease? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Should women use sildenafil to reduce their risk of Alzheimer’s disease? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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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 …