March 2008 Alzheimer's News

Larger Belly In Mid-life Increases Risk Of Dementia, Study Suggests
March 27, 2008 -People with larger stomachs in their 40s are more likely to have dementia when they reach their 70s, according to a new study.
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10 Million Baby Boomers Face Alzheimer's, Report Predicts
March 19, 2008 - An estimated 10 million American baby boomers will develop Alzheimer's disease in their lifetime, placing enormous strains on the U.S. health-care system and the already overburdened network of caregivers, a new report predicts.
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Memory Of One In Three People Over 70 Is Impaired, Study Shows
March 18, 2008 -More than a third of people over age 70 have some form of memory loss according to a national study by a team of researchers at Duke University Medical Center, the University of Michigan, the University of Iowa, the University of Southern California and the RAND Corporation. The group performed the first population-based study to determine the number of people who have some form of cognitive impairment, with and without dementia.
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Pratchett funds Alzheimer's study
March 13, 2008 - Best-selling fantasy author Terry Pratchett is to donate $1m for research into Alzheimer's disease. The creator of the Discworld series was diagnosed with a rare early-onset form of the disease in December. Pratchett, 59, announced the pledge of about £494,000 at the Alzheimer's Research Trust annual conference. Telling leading dementia specialists of his determination to find a cure, he said: "I intend to scream and harangue while there is time."
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Paradoxical Alzheimer's finding may shed new light on memory loss
March 12, 2008 - Do you remember the seventh song that played on your radio on the way to work yesterday? Most of us don’t, thanks to a normal forgetting process that is constantly “cleaning house” – culling inconsequential information from our brains. Researchers at the Buck Institute now believe that this normal memory loss is hyper-activated in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and that this effect is key to the profound memory loss associated with the incurable neurodegenerative disorder.
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Offspring Of Parents Who Both Have Alzheimer's Disease May Be More Likely To Develop The Illness
March 11, 2008 - Adult-age offspring of parents who have both been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease appear to have an increased risk of developing the disease compared with the general population, according to a new report.
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Test can tell if you're destined for Alzheimer's, but then what?
March 5, 2008 - USA Today - Julian Awad is only 34, but he wants to know whether he has an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease after he reaches retirement age. Alzheimer's killed Awad's maternal grandfather and, indirectly, his grandmother. She died, Awad says, from the stress of caring for her husband.
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Does Gingko Biloba Affect Memory?
March 1, 2008 - Taking the supplement ginkgo biloba had no clear-cut benefit on the risk of developing memory problems, according to a new study. The three-year study involved 118 people age 85 and older with no memory problems. Half of the participants took ginkgo biloba extract three times a day and half took a placebo.
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