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Study: Blood Test Can Predict Alzheimer’s Disease

Staff / Truthdig Mar 10, 2014 Researchers in the United States say they have developed a prototype blood test that can tell with 90 percent accuracy whether a healthy person will develop Alzheimer's disease within three years. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Seth Rogen Urges the Senate to Support Alzheimer’s Research

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Mar 1, 2014 Before a congressional committee earlier this week, the American comic actor delivered a personal, impassioned account of his family's struggle with his mother-in-law's Alzheimer's disease. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Cut-and-Paste DNA May Eliminate HIV

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Feb 3, 2014 "Researchers have created genetically modified monkeys with a revolutionary new procedure that enables scientists to cut and paste DNA in living organisms," a development that could "lead to a new era of genetic medicine," The Guardian reports. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Culture or Neurons?

By Susan Okie Mar 9, 2012 What accounts for our species' self-consciousness and awareness of our mortality, for our impulses to create art, to cling to our memories of childhood, to believe in a deity? Two new books suggest distinct approaches to such elemental questions.What accounts for our species' self-consciousness and awareness of our mortality, for our impulses to create art, to cling to our memories of childhood, to believe in a deity? Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Coffee Cure for Alzheimer’s?

Staff / Truthdig Jul 6, 2009 Tell this to the next nudnik who gives you a hard time for sucking down a cup of joe: A study of mice suggests that coffee could reverse symptoms of Alzheimer's and prevent the onset of dementia. Old mice that consumed the equivalent of five cups of coffee a day showed improved cognitive function, and some young mice, when properly juiced, managed to avoid the disease altogether. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

A Curry a Week

Staff / Truthdig Jun 3, 2009 A curry a week may keep the doctor away. Or more precisely, curcumin, a component of turmeric -- a key spice in curry powder -- has been found to prevent the onset of Alzheimer's and dementia if consumed once or twice a week. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Eye Test Detects Alzheimer?s

Staff / Truthdig Jul 23, 2006 Science/Medicine: Detecting Alzheimer?s in the future could be as simple as an eye test. Doctors in Boston are testing a method using a pulse of infrared light that has been successful in mice. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )