A report by Alzheimer's Disease International puts 2010 dementia care costs at $601 billion, more than 1% of global GDP, for an estimated 35.6 million people worldwide, with cases expected to double by 2030. Wealthy countries hold 46% of cases and 89% of the costs.
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DEA Providing Sites for Prescription Drug Disposal
The DEA set up 3,400 sites for National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, saying most abused prescription drugs come from home medicine cabinets and that flushing or trashing them is unsafe. Treatment admissions for prescription drug abuse quadrupled from 1998 to 2008.
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Global Cost of Dementia Soars
Martin Prince and Anders Wimo estimate dementia will cost $604 billion worldwide in 2010 and $1.08 trillion a year by 2050. Rich nations hold 46% of cases but 89% of the cost. ADI chairman Daisy Acosta says governments are woefully unprepared.
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All Memory Loss Due to Brain Abnormalities
Over 16 years, Rush researchers tested 354 nuns, priests and brothers up to 14 times, then examined their brains after death. Those with mild to moderate memory loss had Lewy bodies, neurofibrillary tangles and evidence of stroke, suggesting decline is not simply aging.
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Do Cockroaches Hold the Key to MRSA Treatment?
University of Nottingham researchers found nine molecules in the brain and nervous tissue of cockroaches and locusts that killed 90 percent of E. coli and MRSA bacteria without harming human cells. Simon Lee presented the work to the Society for General Microbiology.
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Promising Malaria Drug on the Horizon
An experimental Novartis compound, NITD609, cleared malaria in mice with a single dose and killed drug-resistant strains taken from patients in Thailand. Safety testing must come first, but the researchers hope human trials can start later this year.
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Did Lou Gehrig have Lou Gerhig's?
Researchers from the VA Medical Center and Boston University examined the spinal cords of two football players and a boxer diagnosed with ALS and found a different motor neuron disease linked to head trauma. Gehrig was cremated, so his own case may never be settled.
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Sleep Disorder Linked to Parkinson's
Researchers at the Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center followed 27 patients whose REM sleep behaviour disorder preceded Parkinson's disease or Lewy body dementia by at least 15 years. Onset averaged age 49, with neurodegenerative disease appearing at a median age of 72.
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Scientists Find Culprits that Cause Celiac Disease
Researchers at Melbourne's Walter and Eliza Hall Institute say they have identified the specific gluten fragments that trigger celiac disease, after more than 200 patients ate bread, rye muffins or barley and gave blood tested against thousands of fragments.
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Less is More When Restraining Calories Boosts Immunity
Forty-six overweight adults aged 20 to 40 followed a 30-percent or 10-percent calorie-restricted diet for six months. Both groups significantly increased their delayed-type hypersensitivity response and T-cell proliferation, markers of cell-mediated immunity, ARS-funded researchers found.
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Link Found Between Obesity Gene and Alzheimer's
A Karolinska Institute study of 1,000 Swedes aged 75 and older links a variant of the obesity-related FTO gene to a 58% higher risk of Alzheimer's and a 48% higher risk of other dementias, apparently independent of diabetes and obesity. The researchers stress more research is needed.
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Tea and Physical Activity Reduce Dementia Risk
Studies presented at the Alzheimer's Association conference in Honolulu tied dementia risk to vitamin D, tea and exercise: people with insufficient vitamin D were 42 percent more likely to develop dementia, and drinking tea one to four times a week was linked to 37 percent lower risk.
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Malaria Drug not Recommended for Leg Cramps
The FDA reviewed adverse event reports from 2005 to 2008 and concluded that Qualaquin, approved to treat malaria, should not be given for leg cramps because its active ingredient, quinine, puts patients at risk of serious blood disorders.
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Park Closed due to Infected Squirrel
Officials closed the Los Alamos campground in California's Angeles National Forest for ten days after a squirrel tested positive for plague. The CDC counts 1,000 to 3,000 plague cases worldwide each year, 5 to 15 of them in the western United States.
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Vets in MO may be at Risk for Hepatitis, HIV
The St. Louis VA says 1,800 veterans who had dental work between February 2009 and March 2010 may have been exposed to hepatitis B and C and HIV, after a March inspection found technicians hand washing instruments before machine cleaning. Free screening is being offered.
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Whooping Cough Epidemic Deadly
California's health department is supplying free pertussis vaccine to hospitals and urging residents to be vaccinated, warning the state is on pace for the most whooping cough illnesses and deaths in 50 years. The piece explains how the bacteria spread.
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Greg Allman Still Recovering
Gregg Allman, co-founder of the Allman Brothers Band, received a liver transplant in Jacksonville, Florida on June 23 after years of hepatitis C treatment and irreversible liver damage. He says doctors expect him well enough for his daughter's July 26 wedding.
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Apple juice may help Alzheimer's patients
In an open-label trial, 21 people with moderate to severe Alzheimer's drank two 4-oz glasses of apple juice a day for a month. Cognitive and daily-living scores did not change, but caregivers reported improvement in behavioural and psychotic symptoms, chiefly anxiety, agitation and delusion.
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