Topic: Dementia
Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2009-12-24 16:27:33
<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Chronic stress can speed up memory decline in older people who already have some impairment in their mental function, a new study in the American Journal of Psychiatry shows.</p><p>But being stressed doesn't appear to affect memory in older people without such impairment ...
Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2009-12-23 20:34:12
<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with Alzheimer's disease may be less apt to get cancer and people with cancer may be less apt to get Alzheimer's disease, new research hints.</p><p>"Discovering the links between these two conditions may help us better understand both diseases and open ...
Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2009-12-15 21:09:29
<div><p>CHICAGO (Reuters) - People who have higher levels of an appetite-suppressing hormone produced by fat cells may be less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease or dementia than others, U.S. researchers said Tuesday.</p><p>They said people in a study who had the highest levels of leptin were far ...
Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2009-12-15 18:21:55
<div><p>CHICAGO (Reuters) - Imaging tests may be able to detect the early signs of Alzheimer's disease long before it begins to affect memory, a finding that may lead to earlier, more effective treatments, U.S. researchers said on Monday.</p><p>They said healthy people who have an abnormal buildup ...
