Here at NIDA, we can’t learn enough about the brain. Other scientists are brain-obsessed too-there’s even a Brain Awareness Week , a global campaign to spread the word about the progress and benefits of brain research. This week, people all over the world will take some time to learn about the…
Researchers have discovered that infants respond to the rhythm and tempo of music and find it more engaging than speech. The findings, based on the study of infants aged between five months and two years old, suggest that babies may be born with a predisposition to move rhythmically in response…
Obesity is a multi-layered health issue in America.
“It’s an important step in understanding and ultimately slowing, stopping or even reversing the effects of Alzheimer’s disease.”….. Alzheimer’s Reading Room A new approach developed for studying brain synapses has yielded valuable information about the production of Amyloid-Beta oligomers (clumps of the Abeta peptide) known to play a key role…
My interview with AllTreatment Blog. Denny Chapin at the AllTreatment Blog was recently invited to participate in an extended debate over marijuana withdrawal at the Drug WarRant blog site. I followed that debate with interest, due to the unusually high volume of responses to my own post on that subject…
The ONLY Way to Deal with Challenging Behavior in Persons with Dementia IS “To PREVENT IT in the First Place”….. By Bob DeMarco Alzheimer’s Reading Room Editor Note: This is not a full blown article by Judy Berry. Instead it is her comment to comments under the original article —…
Federal and provincial health officials have launched a sweeping review of Canada’s flu vaccination system in the wake of the H1N1 scare. In a notice sent to the drug industry yesterday, government officials signalled that they plan to overhaul the supply system and move away from the current model of…
Novartis will not pursue an outcomes trial of its high blood pressure med Tekturna (aliskiren) in combination with standard therapy for heart attack patients after the drug failed to demonstrate a statistically significant benefit in preventing changes in the heart’s shape and worsening of its blood pumping ability, the company…
We all know the feeling of doing something which seems wrong, but nevertheless we still do it. We all sometimes crave for one more piece of cake, even though we have eaten more than enough….It can also be the cigarettes that some of us wish to smoke, when we consciously…
Picky, picky, picky. That’s what AstraZeneca says it will be as it pushes for double-digit growth in emerging markets, Reuters reports. Rather than leaping into branded generics indiscriminately, the company plans to focus on about 100 medicines in 30 markets where it can get the sort of prices that make…