4 – Alzheimers

BACKGROUND: Alzheimer’s disease is a disorder in which nerve cells (neurons) in your brain degenerate and eventually die. As your nerve cells lose function, you’ll experience a steady loss of memory and other thinking abilities (cognitive skills) and gradually lose your independence. Alzheimer’s disease can’t be cured, but doctors can ... continue reading

Dimebon, a pill being developed for Alzheimer’s disease, helped people with Huntington’s disease improve their thinking, learning and memory skills, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

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Alzheimer’s drug Dimebon helps Huntington’s: study (Reuters via Yahoo! News)