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  1. Alzheimer's Disease: 7 Habits That Could Lower Your Risk On Tuesday, May 15, the Obama administration set in stone the National Alzheimer's Plan, aiming to find methods of prevention and treatments for Alzheimer's disease by 2025.
  2. Alzheimer’s $80 Million Research Aims to Prevent the Disease An $80 million national research plan to attack Alzheimer’s, a mind-robbing malady that may affect as many as 16 million Americans by 2050, will start this year with U.S.-sponsored studies on ways to prevent the disease in high- risk people, and treat it with an insulin nasal spray.
  3. Alzheimer's: Clock ticking with new plan to fight disease The clock is ticking: The first National Alzheimer's Plan sets a deadline of 2025 to finally find effective ways to treat, or at least stall, the mind-destroying disease.
  4. Groundbreaking Alzheimer's Disease Prevention Trial Announced In collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Banner Alzheimer’s Institute (BAI), University of Antioquia in Colombia and Genentech, a member of the Roche Group (SIX: RO,ROG;OTCQX:RHHBY), announce the first-ever prevention trial in cognitively healthy individuals who are destined to develop Alzheimer’s disease because of their genetic history.
  5. Banner tests experimental drug to halt Alzheimer's If successful, may open door to larger study testing theory that Alzheimer's can be delayed or halted.
  6. Alzheimer's study to test drug's ability to prevent disease In a clinical trial that could lead to treatments that prevent Alzheimer's disease, people who are genetically guaranteed to suffer from the disease years from now — but who do not yet have any symptoms — will for the first time be given a drug intended to stop them from developing it, federal officials announced Tuesday.
  7. Government launches new plan to find treatment for Alzheimer's disease The clock is ticking: The first National Alzheimer's Plan sets a deadline of 2025 to finally find effective ways to treat, or at least stall, the mind-destroying disease.
  8. Clock ticking with new plan to fight Alzheimer's The clock is ticking: The first National Alzheimer's Plan sets a deadline of 2025 to finally find effective ways to treat, or at least stall, the mind-destroying disease.The Obama administration finalizes ...
  9. Roche Alzheimer's drug picked for major test * Drug picked from pool of 25 rivals * Study is first prevention trial for Alzheimer's disease * Trial puts major theory of disease to the test CHICAGO, May 15 (Reuters) - Roche Holding AG's Genentech ...
  10. Promising new Alzheimer's experiments may lead to cure People who have genetic predisposition to Alzheimer's will begin tests with experimental drug; Nasal spray for people with early memory problems to be tested as well
Last Updated at: 12:13 p.m. on Wednesday, May 16 2012