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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://mnt.to/f/3xpt" title="The benefits of marijuana in tempering or reversing the effects of Alzheimer\'s disease have been challenged in a new study by researchers at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute......" target="_blank">Marijuana Ineffective As An Alzheimer\'s Treatment: UBC-Vancouver Coastal Health Research</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:00:00 PST</span><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://mnt.to/f/3xnY" title="An early stage clinical trial of the experimental drug dimebon (latrepirdine) in people with Huntington\'s disease appears to be safe and may improve cognition. That is the conclusion of a study published in the Archives of Neurology......" target="_blank">Drug Shows Promise For Huntington\'s Disease</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:00:00 PST</span><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://mnt.to/f/3xnr" title="High blood pressure appears to predict the progression to dementia in older adults with impaired executive functions (ability to organize thoughts and make decisions) but not in those with memory dysfunction, according to a report in the February issue of..." target="_blank">Hypertension May Predict Dementia In Older Adults With Certain Cognitive Deficits</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:00:00 PST</span><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://mnt.to/f/3xbx" title="Michelle Mitchell, Charity Director for Age Concern and Help the Aged, said:  \'The fact that dementia research remains so disproportionately underfunded will be deeply concerning to older people, their families and anyone who has experienced this cruel d..." target="_blank">Age Concern And Help The Aged Comment On Dementia Research, UK</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:00:00 PST</span><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://mnt.to/f/3x8B" title=" A new report reveals that the burden of dementia on the UK economy is twice  that of cancer, yet dementia research receives one twenty sixth of  the money that goes to studying cancer, agreeing with previous studies that concluded dementia research is se..." target="_blank">Dementia Costs UK More Than Cancer But Gets Less Research Funding, Report</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:00:00 PST</span><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://mnt.to/f/3x4Z" title="A UCSF analysis of published studies on the relationship between Alzheimer\'s disease and smoking indicates that smoking cigarettes is a significant risk factor for the disease......" target="_blank">Cigarette Smoking A Risk For Alzheimer\'s Disease According To Study</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:00:00 PST</span><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://mnt.to/f/3x44" title="Sir Terry Pratchett, who has a rare form of Alzheimer\'s, says he is ready to be a test case for assisted suicide \'tribunals\' which could give people legal permission to end their lives.  The author says he wants a tribunal set up to help those with inc..." target="_blank">Alzheimer\'s Society Comment On Terry Pratchett\'s Richard Dimbleby Lecture, UK</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PST</span><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://mnt.to/f/3wZD" title="Investigators from the International Center for Biomedicine and the University of Chile, in collaboration with the Center for Bioinformatics of the Universidad de Talca, have discovered that two drugs, the benzimidazole derivatives lanzoprazole and astemi..." target="_blank">Promising New Neuroimaging Techniques For Early Detection Of Alzheimer\'s Disease: Surprising New Tricks For Old Drugs</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:00:00 PST</span><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://mnt.to/f/3wWV" title="Estimates are that some 10 percent of people over the age of 65 will develop Alzheimer\'s disease, the scourge that robs people of their memories and, ultimately, their lives. While researchers race to find both the cause and the cure, others are moving j..." target="_blank">Researchers Image Earliest Signs Of Alzheimer\'s Before Symptoms Appear</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:00:00 PST</span><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://mnt.to/f/3wWy" title="Allon Therapeutics Inc. (TSX:NPC) announced that patient enrolment has begun for a human clinical trial to broaden the demonstrated safety range and pharmacokinetic profile of its lead neuroprotective drug davunetide......" target="_blank">Allon Initiates Trial To Expand Safety Profile For Dementia Drug Davunetide</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:00:00 PST</span><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://mnt.to/f/3wVj" title="MPs debated the progress of the government\'s National Dementia Strategy in the House of Commons.  Shadow health minister Stephen O\'Brien said a Conservative government would make dementia services a \'priority\'.  He was speaking weeks after the Nationa..." target="_blank">Alzheimer\'s Society Comment On House Of Commons Dementia Debate, UK</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:00:00 PST</span><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://mnt.to/f/3wVg" title="Women experiencing an early onset of menopause could develop dementia at a younger age. Research by Tonnie Coppus of Erasmus MC has indicated this. She studied women with Down Syndrome, who are known to have an early onset of menopause. The results of her..." target="_blank">Early Menopause Can Result In Earlier Onset Dementia</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:00:00 PST</span><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://mnt.to/f/3wTS" title="Studies of alcohol use and cognition among the elderly are rare and have mixed results. A study of drinking among the elderly in Brazil has found that heavy alcohol use is associated with more memory and cognitive problems than mild-to-moderate alcohol us..." target="_blank">Alcohol Use And Cognitive Decline Among The Elderly</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:00:00 PST</span><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://mnt.to/f/3wRx" title="Geron Corporation (Nasdaq:GERN) announced that it has entered into a collaboration jointly funded by Geron and a University of California Discovery Research and Training Grant to investigate the therapeutic potential of its human embryonic stem cell (hESC..." target="_blank">Geron Forms Collaboration To Investigate GRNOPC1 In Alzheimer\'s Disease Models</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:00:00 PST</span><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://mnt.to/f/3wNX" title="Neil Hunt is to leave as Chief Executive of Alzheimer\'s Society after nearly seven years in the role.  Ruth Sutherland, Chief Operating Officer of Alzheimer\'s Society will become Acting Chief Executive until a replacement is appointed.  Neil Hunt said: ..." target="_blank">Alzheimer\'s Society Chief Executive Leaves For New Challenges</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:00:00 PST</span><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://mnt.to/f/3wLp" title="Lupin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (LPI) announced that it has received tentative approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) for its Memantine Hydrochloride tablets, 5mg and 10mg.   Lupin\'s Memantine HCl tablets are AB-rated to Namenda® tablets ..." target="_blank">Lupin Receives US FDA Tentative Approval For Memantine HCl Tablets</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:00:00 PST</span><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://mnt.to/f/3wLs" title="Rush University Medical Center is leading a nationwide clinical trial of a nutritional drink to determine whether it can improve cognitive performance in people with mild to moderate Alzheimer\'s......" target="_blank">Rush University Medical Center Leads Nationwide Clinical Trial Of Nutritional Drink For Alzheimer\'s</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:00:00 PST</span><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://mnt.to/f/3wGb" title="Biomedical scientists from the University of Central Florida and Louisiana State University have identified a way to block a \"cell death signal\" that they believe triggers brain damage during strokes. Strokes, also known as cerebral ischemia, are caused..." target="_blank">Discovery Of Stroke\'s \'Death Signal\' May Aid Drug Development</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:00:00 PST</span><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://mnt.to/f/3wDX" title="A new study in the American Journal of Public Health found that 18% of elderly women with severe dementia undergo screening mammograms, despite guidelines from the American Cancer Society and other groups that recommended against such screening for women ..." target="_blank">Study Finds Unnecessary Mammograms Performed On Elderly Women With Dementia</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:00:00 PST</span><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://mnt.to/f/3wCy" title="With scientific evidence linking high levels of copper and iron to Alzheimer\'s disease, heart disease, and other age-related disorders, a new report in ACS\' Chemical Research in Toxicology suggests specific steps that older consumers can take to avoid b..." target="_blank">Consumers Over Age 50 Should Consider Steps To Cut Copper And Iron Intake</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:00:00 PST</span><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://mnt.to/f/3wz7" title="Scientists at Duke University Medical Center have found some compounds that improve a cell\'s ability to properly \"fold\" proteins and could lead to promising drugs for degenerative nerve diseases, including Huntington\'s disease, Alzheimer\'s disease an..." target="_blank">Discovery Of Compounds That Help Protect Nerve Cells</a><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://mnt.to/f/3ww5" title="Biophysicists at TUM, the Technische Universitaet Muenchen, have published the results of single-molecule experiments that bring a higher-resolution tool to the study of protein folding......" target="_blank">Single-Molecule, Real-Time Measurements Of A Key Biological Process</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:00:00 PST</span><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://mnt.to/f/3wwj" title="Recent research reporting the clinical inefficacy of amyloid treatment for     Alzheimer\'s disease has introduced some confusion into this research     field, and studies should be careful take into account the different     pathogenic effects of amyloid..." target="_blank">Treatment Of Alzheimer\'s Disease In Mice With Anti-Homocysteic Acid Antibody</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:00:00 PST</span><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://mnt.to/f/3wtZ" title="Cognitive fluctuations, or episodes when train of thought temporarily is lost, are more likely to occur in older persons who are developing Alzheimer\'s disease than in their healthy peers, according to scientists at Washington University School of Medici..." target="_blank">Staring, Sleepiness, Other Mental Lapses More Likely In Patients With Alzheimer\'s</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:00:00 PST</span><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://mnt.to/f/3wtF" title="Older people who have \"mental lapses,\" or times when their thinking seems disorganized or illogical or when they stare into space, may be more likely to have Alzheimer\'s disease than people who do not have these lapses, according to a study published i..." target="_blank">Drowsiness, Staring, And Other Mental Lapses May Signal Alzheimer\'s Disease</a><br />');
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