DALLAS: Investigators have discovered a mechanism behind the spread of neurofibrillary tangles – one of the two hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease – through the brains of affected indiviudals. In a report the research team describes finding that a particular version of the tau protein, while Read More »

CHICAGO: One of the recent winners of the Nobel Prize for medicine discovered a breakthrough drug after poring over 2,000 ancient herbal recipes. Dr Tu Youyou’s discovery, the anti-malarial artemisinin, derived from wormwood, is credited with saving millions of lives.

From opium in poppies, to Read More »

PHOENIX: Three diseases often involve long periods of decline before death. Two of them — heart disease and cancer — usually require expensive drugs, surgeries and hospitalisations. The third, dementia, has no effective treatments to slow its course.

So when a group of researchers asked Read More »

DALLAS: Summer babies are more likely to develop dementia, a major study has found.

The study of 150,000 pensioners shows those who born between June and August are more likely to suffer from the condition than those born between December and February.

The research could Read More »