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by Alzheimer's Association · Published July 12, 2011 · Last modified April 26, 2014
The Alzheimer’s Association International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease (AAICAD) 2011, the world’s leading forum on dementia research, begins this weekend in Paris, France. As a supporter of the Alzheimer’s Association, we want you to...
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by Alzheimer's Association · Published June 29, 2011 · Last modified April 3, 2014
The last group of presenters at the Alzheimer’s Association Researchers’ Symposium focused on research about imaging and biomarkers. ...
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by Alzheimer's Association · Published June 28, 2011 · Last modified April 3, 2014
Before breaking for lunch, the room full of 150 Alzheimer’s researchers and scientists heard from a group of presenters about the latest in clinical and translational neuroscience. Presenters included Dr. Lea Grinberg from UCSF,...
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by Alzheimer's Association · Published June 28, 2011 · Last modified April 3, 2014
Today, world leaders in Alzheimer’s research have gathered at the Alzheimer’s Association of Northern California and Northern Nevada’s Alzheimer’s Researchers’ Symposium. The Symposium is a place for the brightest minds in Northern California Alzheimer’s...
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by Alzheimer's Association · Published January 26, 2011 · Last modified April 14, 2014
A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel last week said that florbetapir (Amyvid), a radioactive dye proposed for use in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) to detect amyloid buildup in the brain, could...
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by Alzheimer's Association · Published January 20, 2011 · Last modified April 14, 2014
Alzheimer’s Association funded scientist Dr. Kristine Yaffe has found a blood test that helped predict cognitive decline in a study of 1,000 older people without dementia. Find out more in this NBC Bay Area...
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by wmfisher · Published August 24, 2010 · Last modified April 14, 2014
Cancer, heart disease and AIDS receive 10 to 15 times the Federal funding of Alzheimer’s disease. It’s no coincidence that deaths from all of these conditions declined over the last five years while deaths from Alzheimer’s rose. Research investments have paid off in these areas and it can in Alzheimer’s disease.
