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A research team led by Dr Alisoun Milne, a Senior Lecturer at the Tizard Centre, University of Kent, has identified weaknesses in the most widely employed dementia screening instrument currently used in primary care.

Ethnicity and presence of certain health conditions, such as diabetes or high blood pressure, appear to affect length of survival for people with Alzheimer's disease, according to a study published in the November issue of Neurology, Reuters Health reports. For the study, lead researcher Yaakov Stern of

Our mothers told us that true beauty is more than skin deep - but researchers are now challenging Mom. They've built a beauty machine that, with the press of a button, turns a picture of your own ordinary face into that of a cover model.