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  1. Alzheimer’s $80 Million Research Aims to Prevent the Disease An $80 million national research plan to attack Alzheimer’s, a mind-robbing malady that may affect as many as 16 million Americans by 2050, will start this year with U.S.-sponsored studies on ways to prevent the disease in high- risk people, and treat it with an insulin nasal spray.
  2. Alzheimer's Disease: 7 Habits That Could Lower Your Risk On Tuesday, May 15, the Obama administration set in stone the National Alzheimer's Plan, aiming to find methods of prevention and treatments for Alzheimer's disease by 2025.
  3. Alzheimer's gene causes brain's blood vessels to leak toxins and die ApoE4, a well-known genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease triggers a cascade of signaling that ultimately results in leaky blood vessels in the brain, allowing toxic substances to pour into brain tissue in large amounts, scientists report.
  4. Alzheimer's: Clock ticking with new plan to fight disease The clock is ticking: The first National Alzheimer's Plan sets a deadline of 2025 to finally find effective ways to treat, or at least stall, the mind-destroying disease.
  5. Banner tests experimental drug to halt Alzheimer's If successful, may open door to larger study testing theory that Alzheimer's can be delayed or halted.
  6. Government launches new plan to find treatment for Alzheimer's disease The clock is ticking: The first National Alzheimer's Plan sets a deadline of 2025 to finally find effective ways to treat, or at least stall, the mind-destroying disease.
  7. Alzheimer's study to test drug's ability to prevent disease In a clinical trial that could lead to treatments that prevent Alzheimer's disease, people who are genetically guaranteed to suffer from the disease years from now — but who do not yet have any symptoms — will for the first time be given a drug intended to stop them from developing it, federal officials announced Tuesday.
  8. Clock ticking with new plan to fight Alzheimer's The clock is ticking: The first National Alzheimer's Plan sets a deadline of 2025 to finally find effective ways to treat, or at least stall, the mind-destroying disease.The Obama administration finalizes ...
  9. Groundbreaking Alzheimer's Disease Prevention Trial Announced In collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Banner Alzheimer’s Institute (BAI), University of Antioquia in Colombia and Genentech, a member of the Roche Group (SIX: RO,ROG;OTCQX:RHHBY), announce the first-ever prevention trial in cognitively healthy individuals who are destined to develop Alzheimer’s disease because of their genetic history.
  10. Alzheimer's focus shifts to testing therapies earlier, before patients show many symptoms WASHINGTON - Look for a fundamental shift in how scientists hunt ways to ward off the devastation of Alzheimer's disease — by testing possible therapies in people who don't yet show many symptoms, before too much of the brain is destroyed.
Last Updated at: 4:13 p.m. on Wednesday, May 16 2012