ANA News
2019-07-19 – "Recent advances in the understanding of migraine mechanisms and the availability of new migraine treatments have made the headache field one of the most interesting and exciting neurologic subspecialties.” - Todd Schwedt, MD, Professor of Neurology, Mayo Clinic Board of Directors, Executive…
2019-07-16 – On June 25th, the Boston Red Sox hosted the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund Event at the team’s game against the Chicago White Sox to raise awareness about the disease and efforts to identify effective treatment and prevention strategies. The event helped to honor representatives of the research community,…
2019-07-16 – David Holtzman, ANA president and professor and chair of neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, says there is no objective data that specific strategies work aside from a 2015 study conducted in Finland that showed that elderly people who were cognitively normal or had…
2019-07-15 – The Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) will move dementia science forward with a record number of abstracts this year. Roughly 3,000 scientific presentations will be featured at the meeting here from July 14 to 18, with about 6,000 people from more than 70 countries expected to…
2019-07-15 – A healthy lifestyle can cut your risk of developing Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia even if you have genes that raise your risk for these mind-destroying diseases, a large study has found. Learn more here: A healthy lifestyle may offset genetic risk for Alzheimer’s
2019-07-09 – A health-care start-up called Partner Therapeutics began last year with a single product: a leukemia medicine approved in 1991 that doctors rarely prescribe anymore. The drug, Leukine, made so little money that its previous owner did not even bother to disclose sales. It just dumped them on revenue…
2019-07-01 – Scientists continue to uncover the many fascinating ways in which the trillions of microbes that inhabit the human body influence our health. Now comes yet another surprising discovery: a medicine-eating bacterium residing in the human gut that may affect how well someone responds to the most…
2019-07-01 – Operating before birth can minimize nerve damage caused by severe defects in tissue around the spinal column. Learn more here: A Boy Who Had Spinal Surgery in the Womb Stands on His Own Two Feet
2019-06-25 – The Derek Denny-Brown Young Neurological Scholar Award is the ANA’s most prestigious award. It recognizes early- to mid-career neurologists and neuroscientists who have made outstanding basic and clinical scientific advances toward the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and cure of neurological…
2019-06-25 – "Trials to delay or prevent the onset of Alzheimer dementia, and the development of blood-based biomarkers to screen for Alzheimer disease, are among the cutting-edge research initiatives that will be discussed at the ANA Annual Meeting.” - John C. Morris, MD, the Harvey A. and Dorismae Hacker…