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RESEARCH ARTICLE: Researchers find that niacin, used as FDA-approved Niaspan, reduces Alzheimer’s amyloid plaques and improves cognition. Learn more.
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Working on Education and Language Offers Dramatic Advantages in Fighting Dementia
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DIET & HYGIENE: Researchers find growing evidence that aluminum contributes to the development of Alzheimer’s. Find out more.
A Real Alzheimer’s Prevention Program from The University of California
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HEALTH SEMINAR – VIDEO: Can Alzheimer’s be prevented? Some call prevention a false hope. Not Professor Gary Small, MD, Director of UCLA’s Longevity Center. If
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