A new Alzheimer’s drug, called BAN2401 reduced amyloid plaques in Alzheimer’s patients during Phase 2 clinical trials. Partnering drug manufacturers, Biogen and Eisai announced this exciting news last week. The long losing streak in finding an Alzheimer’s drug cure may be over. This Phase 2 clinical trial which lasted 18 months, showed BAN240 …
Full blown diabetes can be triggered in seniors with just two weeks of inactivity. These are startling findings from a recent study. Diabetes is a serious disease in seniors and can lead to chronic illness, and even death. As we get older, exercising becomes very important. Research shows that it can lead to good health, …
Dementia’s have been linked to chronic brain inflammation in senior citizens . Recently, researchers from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, tracked levels of a blood bio-marker called C-reactive protein and its relation to dementia risk in senior citizens. Past studies had found a relationship between increased levels of brain inflammation bio-markers and the development of …
Heart defects in childhood may link to increased risk of developing dementia by age 65, according to a recent Danish study. Heart Defects: Study Results Compared to people born with normal hearts, adult survivors of childhood heart defects were more than twice as likely to develop so-called early-onset dementia by age …
The flu shot is the medicine of choice to fight against the influenza virus. Flu is a serious virus that leads to many illnesses and even deaths, each year. You don’t have to be young or have a compromised immune system to get ill from the infection. Healthy people can get sick from the flu …
Shingles is a painful itching rash caused by the varicella zoster virus, the same bug behind chickenpox. The virus lies dormant in the nerve tissue of people who’ve had chickenpox, and years later can reactivate itself. Anyone who’s had chickenpox can develop shingles, but about half of all cases occur in people 60 and older, …
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday announced a pilot program to accelerate the approval of new medical software products. New Medical Software Certification Protocols Consequently, Nine companies will participate in the Software Pre-certification Pilot Program and advise on types of expedited pre-certification. Currently, certification requirements are time-consuming prolong medical software …