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OLIGOMERIX, Inc. announced receipt of a program related investment of $100K from the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF). The focus of the program is to select compounds using its proprietary Alzheimer's disease (AD) screening assays active against tau oligomers, and to evaluate these compounds in a tauopathy mouse model. The work will be done in collaboration with Dr. Ottavio Arancio, MD, PhD (Columbia University Medical Center) and Dr.

An apprentice style challenge will take the property world by storm as North London takes on South London to drum up funds for people with dementia and their carers on Tuesday 8 July. Jones Lang LaSalle staff at Clapham Junction and Finsbury Park tube stations will compete to get public support for the Alzheimer's Society's Dementia Awareness Week (6-12 July). Jones Lang LaSalle, the global real estate firm, voted the Alzheimer's Society to be its charity of the year.

Here's a refreshing idea: Let's try to manage the difficult symptoms of Alzheimer's with natural, nondrug methods. That's what researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience did when they tested the...

People with high blood pressure are up to six hundred per cent more likely to develop dementia according to new research, released by Alzheimer's Society during Dementia Awareness Week (6- 12 July 2008). High blood pressure led to a six fold increase in vascular dementia, the second most common form of dementia in the UK, according to the research.