HealthDay - TUESDAY, Nov. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Although commonly taken to improve memory, new research suggests that the herb ginkgo biloba won't help prevent dementia, including Alzheimer's disease.
Reuters - The widely used herbal supplement Ginkgo biloba does not appear to prevent Alzheimer's disease in healthy elderly people or those with mild cognitive impairment, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
AP - The dietary supplement ginkgo, long promoted as an aid to memory, didn't help prevent dementia and Alzheimer's disease in the longest and largest test of the extract in older Americans. "We don't think it has a future as a powerful anti-dementia drug," said Dr. Steven DeKosky of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, who led the federally funded study.
Reuters - Although often billed as a memory and cognition enhancing product, the medicinal herb Ginkgo biloba does not stave off cognitive decline or help prevent dementia and Alzheimer's disease, according to a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association this week.
HealthDay - MONDAY, Nov. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have stumbled across a novel mechanism by which brain tumors model their environment to nurture their own growth.
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch:
HealthDay - MONDAY, Nov. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Differences in the brains of elderly people may help explain why some develop dementia while others are among the "super aged" -- people who maintain sharp mental focus and ability well into old age.
HealthDay - MONDAY, Nov. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Glucocorticoid drugs used to treat chronic lung damage in premature infants caused brain injury in mice and may cause cognitive and motor control problems even when they're given before birth, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Reuters - An experimental Merck & Co Inc drug that raises levels of a natural growth hormone failed to improve memory skills in people with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
Reuters - People who manage to keep a razor-sharp memory well into their 80s appear to have fewer fiber-like tangles of a protein linked with Alzheimer's than those who age normally, U.S. researchers said on Sunday.
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