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UPI on MSN · 6h

Low 'bad' cholesterol might protect against dementia, Alzheimer's disease

Lower levels of "bad" LDL cholesterol could mean a lower risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease, a new study says.

Scientific American · 7h

Shingles Vaccination May Help Protect People from Alzheimer’s Disease

The findings suggest that the shingles virus might play a role in causing at least a subset of dementia cases, Geldsetzer says, and the vaccine may protect against that. Alternatively, it could be that certain vaccines, such as the one for shingles, lead to a broader immune system activation that lowers the risk of dementia developing.

U.S. News & World Report · 7h

Shingles Vaccine Protects Against Dementia

Seniors who got the shingles vaccine when it became available in the U.K. were 20% less likely to develop dementia than those who did not take the jab, according to research published April 2 in the journal Nature.

New blood test diagnoses Alzheimer's disease

Fox News on MSN · 1d

New blood test diagnoses Alzheimer’s disease and measures how far it's progressed

A new blood test test could determine how far Alzheimer's has progressed and could also help confirm whether another condition is causing a person’s cognitive symptoms.

News-Medical.Net on MSN · 1d

A new blood test could improve how Alzheimer’s disease is diagnosed

The blood test for eMTBR-tau243 shows strong correlation with tau pathology, enhancing Alzheimer's diagnosis and monitoring cognitive decline effectively.

IFLScience on MSN · 4h

Scientists Develop Blood Test That Diagnoses Alzheimer’s And Identifies What Stage It Has Reached

Scientists have developed a blood test for Alzheimer’s disease that can help diagnose the neurodegenerative disease while also indicating how far it has progressed. The results could help doctors decide which medications to prescribe depending on how long they’ve had the condition.

Shingles vaccine may lower dementia risk by 20% in older adults, study shows

With new dementia cases expected to double in the United States by 2060, the therapy could be a difference maker. But ...

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Biogen’s tau targeting Alzheimer’s disease therapy gets FDA Fast Track status

Biogen (NASDAQ:BIIB) said on Wednesday that the U.S. FDA has granted Fast Track designation to BIIB080, its antisense ...

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Shingles is awful, but here’s another reason to get vaccinated: It may fight dementia

A vaccination to prevent horribly painful shingles may offer an extra benefit: New research suggests it might lower the risk ...

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Maintaining low cholesterol may help decrease dementia risk

Now, a study has found that low levels of LDL-C, or ‘bad’ cholesterol, may reduce the risk of developing dementia. Statins, a ...

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Getting this vaccine lowered seniors’ dementia risk by 20%

A new study out of Stanford has presented the strongest evidence to date that a common vaccine could significantly reduce the ...

Latest Alzheimer's lab tests focus on memory loss, not brain plaques

Worley was part of a team that showed how the loss of one of the two proteins used in the test disrupts synapses and leads to ...

Explaining Alzheimer's to a child could be ongoing process. Allow open talks about disease

The explanation of Alzheimer's, given the span of the disease, could become more of an ongoing process for the child rather ...

Tau-Targeting Antisense Therapy for Alzheimer Disease Gets Fast Track Status

BIIB080 is an antisense oligonucleotide therapy designed to target microtubule-associated protein tau mRNA and reduce the production of tau.

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