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Scientists are finding increasing evidence for a link between air pollution and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s

11.01.2023

The air in Mexico City was once so toxic that people watched as dead birds fell out of the sky. In 1992, the United Nations declared the city the most …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Victims of domestic abuse should get the same top-notch concussion care as athletes

06.12.2022

Two vastly different experiences — serving as a “guest coach” on the sidelines for a Division I football team and volunteering in a busy emergency department — showed me just …

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Health Tech

Elon Musk says Neuralink’s brain-machine interface could enter human studies next year

01.12.2022

Elon Musk’s brain-machine interface company Neuralink aims to put its first implant in a human subject in the next six months, he said during an event Wednesday. Musk said the …

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Biotech / In the Lab / Pharma

On the long road to treating Huntington’s genetic stutter, scientists return to overlooked clues

30.11.2022

In the spring of 1981, a geneticist from Indianapolis and a neurologist from Chicago got in a car and for three days they crisscrossed the yellowing cornfields of Iowa. Every …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Anti-amyloid drugs and the mystery of treatment-associated brain shrinkage

28.11.2022

Eisai’s announcement that lecanemab, its antibody drug for Alzheimer’s disease that targets the buildup of amyloid protein in the brain, modestly slowed cognitive decline in a Phase 3 trial offers …

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Lessons from a thriving physical therapist to a younger self just learning about multiple sclerosis

28.11.2022

“Living With” explores the contours of life with chronic illness, from the prelude to diagnosis to new patterns of living, to wrestling with big questions about illness and health. A …

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A jury finds NCAA is not to blame in lawsuit over football player’s death after repeated head trauma

23.11.2022

LOS ANGELES — In a verdict that could affect countless claims by athletes who sue sports organizations for head injuries, a Los Angeles jury on Tuesday rejected a lawsuit seeking …

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Biotech / Health

An Alzheimer’s therapy scores winning results, but what could it mean for patients?

28.09.2022

The news Tuesday night that a clinical trial of an experimental Alzheimer’s therapy had succeeded hit like a blast — at last, a rare win in a disease devastating nearly …

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Daily multivitamins improved the brain function of seniors in a trial — but plenty of questions remain

14.09.2022

While pharma companies struggle to show that cutting-edge therapies can treat, prevent, or slow Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia, a new study suggests that a far simpler and …

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