News Tag: News. Positive drug trial results of a new treatment for dementia-related psychosis presented at Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease conference - Alzheimer's Society comment Researchers presented results from a phase 3 trial of pimavanserin that showed a significant reduction in the risk of relapse into psychosis compared to the placebo. Read more
News Tag: News. Alzheimer's Society responds to Biogen, Aducanumab results at Clinical Trials on Alzheimer's Disease Conference (CTAD) Biogen presented their results on Aducanumab, their newest drug for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease at the CTAD conference 2019 in San Diego, USA. Read more
News Tag: News. Studies linking dementia and brain inflammation in mice – Alzheimer’s Society comment Two new papers are being published in Science Translational Medicine which shed more light on the mechanism that leads to cognitive ageing in mice and humans. Read more
Real stories Always involved: Making dementia research the best it can be People affected by dementia are supporting a major long-term study. People affected by dementia are supporting a major long-term study. ... 28 November 2019
News Tag: News. Biogen Inc. will ask U.S. drug regulators to approve new Alzheimer’s drug, Alzheimer’s Society responds Biogen Inc. will ask U.S. drug regulators to approve the company’s experimental Alzheimer’s therapy, reviving the nearly abandoned treatment, after a new analysis of data from two failed clinical trials showed promising results. Read more
News Tag: News. Study reveals dementia risk in former professional football players – Alzheimer’s Society comment A study led by the University of Glasgow has revealed the first major insights into lifelong health outcomes in former professional football players. Read more
Information Researching the ‘obvious’: Evidence for better dementia support Have you ever looked at research findings and thought, ‘I could have told you that’? Nicola Hart, in our Research Translation team, explains why this kind of knowledge is vital. Have you ever looked at research findings and thought, ‘I could have told you that’? Nicola Hart, in our Research Translation team, explains why this kind of knowledge is vital. ... 30 September 2019
News Tag: News. Axon Neuroscience announces positive results from Phase II trial for a cure to Alzheimer’s Disease – Alzheimer’s Society comment Today, Axon Neuroscience has announced the results of the Phase II trial for AADvac1, its first-in-class vaccine aimed at slowing down the progression of Alzheimer’s Disease Read more
News Tag: News. Protein tangles linked with dementia seen for first time in patients’ brains after single head injury Scientists have visualised for the first time protein ‘tangles’ associated with dementia in the brains of patients who have suffered a single head injury Read more
News Tag: News. More than one in 10 registered deaths in 2018 due to dementia and Alzheimer’s – Alzheimer’s Society comments Dementia and Alzheimer's disease accounted for more than a tenth of the registered deaths in England and Wales in 2018, new figures show. Read more
News Tag: News. Blood test is 94 per cent accurate at identifying early Alzheimer's disease Up to two decades before people develop the characteristic memory loss and confusion of Alzheimer's disease, damaging clumps of protein start to build up in their brains. Read more
News Tag: News. Both low and high levels of haemoglobin linked to increased risk of dementia – Alzheimer’s Society comment A new study published today has found that having either low or high levels of haemoglobin in your blood may be linked to an increased risk of developing dementia years later. Read more