Latest Alzheimer’s disease News & Updates

Mumbai, April 19 (IANS) Veteran actress Poonam Dilloon turned a year older on Saturday, and marking her special day, her friend and actress Padmini Kolhapure chose to wish her with her favourite Asha Bhosle song.Taking to her official Instagram handle, Padmini Kolhapure dropped a video of herself grooving on the “Tu Tu Hai Wahi” from the 1982 release “Yeh Vaada Raha” featuring Rishi Kapoor, Poonam Dhillon, and Tina Munim.Wishing Poonam Dilloon on her birthday, the ‘Prem Rog’ actress wrote on the…

New Delhi, Jan 6 (IANS) Simple finger-prick blood samples that can be collected at home and mailed to laboratories without refrigeration or prior processing can help detect Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers accurately, according to an international study.The research, published in the journal Nature Medicine, represents the first large-scale validation of the accessible testing approach that removes geographic barriers and opens brain disease research to global populations without requiring special…

New Delhi, Dec 25 (IANS) In a significant breakthrough, US researchers have found in animal studies that Alzheimer’s disease can be reverse, challenging previous studies that for over a century considered the neurodegenerative disease to be irreversible. The new study, published in the journal Cell Reports Medicine and based on diverse preclinical mouse models and human Alzheimer’s brains, demonstrated that maintaining proper NAD+ balance can prevent and even reverse the disease.NAD+ is a centra…