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- Does Prana offer real Alzheimer's hope or head fake?
- A substance called PBT2. It transports ions of copper and zinc across the blood-brain barrier, which then break up the plaques which cause Alzheimer's Diseease by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Flurizan failure does not end Alzheimer's hope
- Flurizan failure does not end Alzheimer's hopeGlad this company was responsible enough to report its findingsBetter to lose stock value now than lose billions in lawsuits.Hopefully more drug companies will follow their example.
- Tags: Flurizan, Alzheimer's disease
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- Flurizan failure does not end Alzheimer's hope
- Flurizan aimed to stop development of all amyloid plaques. Gamma-secretase modulators GSMs only go after the long ones. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Theory, Alzheimer's Community, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Another amyloid-beta clue to Alzheimer's
- The studies help explain why some people found after death to have lots of insoluble Alzheimer's plaques never develop the disease. But it's a long way from understanding the causes to creating a cure. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Patient, Bapineuzumab, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- GSMs offer new link between Alzheimer's and heart disease
- GSMs offer new link between Alzheimer's and heart diseaseYou've got it wrong!The "plaque" that forms in Alzheimer's disease brains is biochemically and pathologically completely different than the "plaques" that form in arteries with atherosclerosis. The link between these two conditions and treatment thereof that is implied in this article...
- Tags: Alzheimer's disease, GSM
- Discussion threads 2008-06-14
- GSMs offer new link between Alzheimer's and heart disease
- What makes GSMs so promising is that, while statins may stop plaque from forming they do nothing about plaque which is there, while with the new drugs "GSM agents actually stick to the Abeta already in the brain, keeping it from aggregating." by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Protein, GSM, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-13
- Is Alzheimer's on the ropes?
- Is Alzheimer's on the ropes?That would be wonderfulI agree that Alzheimer's is just a terrible disease and also hopeful a cure/prevention can be found. While this does not run in my family, I've seen and heard of the toll it takes on families.Soon we will get a new president that...
- Tags: Alzheimer's disease, Pope, God, rope
- Discussion threads 2008-02-18
- Is Alzheimer's on the ropes?
- We may finally be getting to the root of Alzheimer's Disease. Some 32 centers around the country are enrolling patients in 8 new trials of a drug that drags beta amyloid, the protein whose plaques cause brain cells to die, into the bloodstream for disposal. ...
- Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-18
- The fight over statins
- Depending on who you read statins like simvastatin and Lipitor are either the "greatest things evah!" or an out-and-out fraud. There are two reasons for this. Studies of long-term statin use are giving results which sometimes appear unclear; and Statins are an enormous...
- Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, News, Heart Attack, Benefits, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- New Alzheimer's test is scary tech
- New Alzheimer's test is scary techI'm with you...I have found from sad experience that being informed of an incurable disease usually programs most people to degenerate much faster than they would otherwise have done. Same for low percentage chance curable diseases.I'm familiar with the thought processes and the way the...
- Tags: scary tech, Alzheimer's disease
- Discussion threads 2007-10-16
- New Alzheimer's test is scary tech
- I have a secret for you. My grandfather right died of Alzheimer's Disease. He was 86 when he passed away. My own dad came through town, after seeing his father for the last time. Looked like he'd seen a ghost. Needed several stiff drinks...
- Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Wyss-Coray, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-16
- Web-Based Data Quality Assurance Reports at the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center (NACC)
- A series of approximately 60 tables and reports has been developed for monitoring the quality of data submitted to the Uniform Data Set UDS of the National Alzheimers Coordinating Center NACC. Twenty-nine Alzheimers Disease Centers ADCs, funded by the National Institute on Aging NIA, submit data collected on standardized forms...
- Tags: Data Quality, Alzheimer's Disease, Web, QA, SAS Institute, Quality Assurance Supervision
- White papers 2007-05-14
- Sun: ODF needed to prevent 'corporate Alzheimer's'
- Sun: ODF needed to prevent 'corporate Alzheimer's'But, will there be aSun Blade available to pull the source, . . hardware may have gone obsolete, . . but none the less, yes a standard would be nice to decide on. Of course, you can't beat a book, . . ....
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Word processors, grid, odf, Microsoft Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., OpenDocument Format, Alzheimer's disease
- Discussion threads 2005-12-14
Additional Resources
- The running scandal of long-term care insurance
- The running scandal of long-term care insuranceLong-term Care Insurance"With 79 million of us now headed past our warrantee expirations, the cost of caring for us is about to explode. It’s a ticking bomb under the economy, and the free market does not have an answer for it."Here's the answer: Plan...
- Tags: Vertical industries, long-term care, long-term care insurance
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Why does open source need a villain?
- Why does open source need a villain?It doesn't need a villianIt just needs competition. And Apple provides some, but they also leave the door open for F/OSS given their restrictive policies.villain or hero?Linus Torvalds"By giving away his software, the Finnish programmer earned a place in history""Some of Torvalds' supporters portray...
- Tags: open source, villain, open source need, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- MB Diabetes Risk Calculator (exe)
- MB Diabetes Risk Calculator is a simple health software with an easy to use interface. MB Diabetes Risk Calculator helps you understand this disease better and take precaution on time. This software makes you understand better about the symptoms of diabetes so that you can take timely action. This version...
- Tags: Health Care, MysticBoard, MB Diabetes Risk Calculator, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management
- Software downloads 2008-07-18
- Supercomputers fight against bird flu
- A worldwide outbreak of avian or 'bird flu' is still not excluded and health officials recognize that new drugs are needed since new strains of the virus appear everyday. Now, U.S. scientists are using supercomputers to find new drugs to fight the virus and to stay ahead of these mutations....
- Tags: Protein, Compound, Supercomputer, Bird Flu, Scientist, Potential Candidate Drug, Team Management, Cyberthreats, Security, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Is the Dutch model the right reform for U.S. healthcare?
- Is the Dutch model the right reform for U.S. healthcare?a little betterIt's better, in that it involves some competition between private companies, and not full government involvement. It's also good that it provides coverage to everyone.However, as you stated, much of it is paid for by "the wealthy", which...
- Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Dutch model, right reform, U.S. Healthcare, health care, reform, government, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-07-15
- Miniaturized DNA sewing machines
- Miniaturized DNA sewing machinesAnd then on the seventh day, He rested...To push the analogy onward, if the "evolution" of gene manipulation is to follow that of industrial design, then next will be submicron weaving machines that allow DNA synthesis, followed by pattern making machines, then dot matrix DNA engines, and...
- Tags: Biotechnology, DNA
- Discussion threads 2008-07-14
- Got diabetes? Connect!
- Got diabetes? Connect!Took a look around...Lots of 404 errors when clicking on story links.Maybe I'll try back later. IF I remember...TuDiabetes.com: the first social network for people touched by diabetesI wanted to encourage readers of this article to also consider joining TuDiabetes.com, a social network for people touched by...
- Tags: Social networking, TuDiabetes.com
- Discussion threads 2008-07-14
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