Washington Post (February 5, 2015): Alzheimer’s Costs Could Soar to $1 Trillion a Year by 2050, Report Says

Washington Post (February 5, 2015): Alzheimer’s Costs Could Soar to $1 Trillion a Year by 2050, Report Says

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Thu, 02/05/2015

A report issued Thursday on the financial impact of Alzheimer’s disease in the United States warns that it could soar to more than $1 trillion a year by 2050, with much of it borne by the federal government, unless action is taken to shift current tSee Original Article

UCSF team finds key to making neurons from stem cells

Pnky, a noncoding RNA found in brain stem cells, may have a broad range of clinical applicationsA research team at UC San Francisco has discovered an RNA molecule called Pnky that can be…
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Finding points to possible mechanism underpinning Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases

Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have for the first time discovered a killing mechanism that could underpin a range of the most intractable…
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Parkinson's gene linked to lung cancer

Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), in collaboration with other colleagues of the Genetic Epidemiology of Lung Cancer Consortium (GELCC), have identified a gene that is associated…
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