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Does Hormone Therapy for Prostate Cancer Raise Dementia Risk? drugs
May 06, 2019
Does Hormone Therapy for Prostate Cancer Raise Dementia Risk?
Zonisamide may help those with dementia with Lewy bodies europeanpharmaceuticalreview
April 29, 2019
A drug used to treat seizures may effectively treat the movement symptoms in people with dementia with Lewy bodies without causing additional psychiatric symptoms…
No association found between trazodone and reduced risk of dementia europeanpharmaceuticalreview
April 10, 2019
The antidepressant drug, trazodone, taken for anxiety and depression, has been found not to be linked to a reduced risk of dementia…
Antiepileptic Drugs Not Tied to Dementia Risk drugs
March 21, 2019
Antiepileptic drug (AED) use is not significantly associated with dementia risk in patients in Germany, according to a study published online March 12 in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.
Lewy Body Society grants £1 million for dementia research pharmatimes
March 19, 2019
The Lewy Body Society has announced that the latest recipients of its grant programme will be University of Cambridge, Newcastle University and Imperial College London, taking its funding grand total to over £1 million since it supported its first PhD stu
FDA Warns About 'Miracle' Young Blood Infusion Treatments drugs
February 20, 2019
The use of plasma infusion therapies (often called "vampire" treatments, in which people undergo infusions of a young donor's blood) is on the rise across the United States....
No association between antiepileptic drug use and dementia europeanpharmaceuticalreview
February 19, 2019
Antiepileptic drugs have been found to have no association with dementia, with researchers looking at the data of over 50,000 patients…
Breakdown of Blood-Brain Barrier May Drive Dementia drugs
January 16, 2019
Breakdown of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) may be an early biomarker of cognitive dysfunction, independent of amyloid or tau marker status, according to a study published online Jan. 14 in Nature Medicine....
Certain Female Vets May Face Higher Dementia Risk drugs
December 13, 2018
The toll of U.S. military service can be steep for female veterans, with depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and brain injury each significantly raising the odds of later dementia, new research suggests.....
FDA grants frontotemporal dementia drug Orphan-Drug Designation europeanpharmaceuticalreview
December 11, 2018
A dementia drug has been given Orphan Drug Designation by the FDA, meaning this special status will qualify sponsors of the drug for development incentives.

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