Dementia prevention hits the headlines at AAIC17

Pointing the FINGER at multimodal dementia prevention.

The fi rst WHO Ministerial Conference on Global Action Against Dementia, hosted in March, 2015, showed that the focus on fi nding the causes and cures for dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, is intensifying. Since development of a cure for dementia by 2025 is unlikely, risk reduction is the most eff ective approach to delay onset and potentially reduce the number of new cases. Such an appr...

Lung and breast cancer research: immunoglobulin Kappa C hits the headlines.

Recently, Schmidt and colleagues reported that immunoglobulin Kappa C (IGKC) predicts a favourable response to chemotherapy and better metastasis-free survival in breast cancer patients (Schmidt et al., 2012). The authors validated the prognostic and predictive role of IGKC in 1,810 breast cancer, 1,056 non-small cell lung cancer and 513 colorectal cancer patient samples. The identification of ...

Fevered headlines

There are occasions when readers can get a realistic picture of some topical issue only by examining what several different newspapers say from their respective standpoints. In the case of the influenza that hit Britain in January, this approach would have brought more confusion than clarity. Not only were there flatly contradictory accounts of the severity of the outbreak, and whether it quali...

Shisana hits back at her critics.

Prevention of dementia

INTRODUCTION — Dementia is an increasing problem, primarily affecting elderly patients. Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia in the elderly, accounting for 60 to 80 percent of cases. Asymptomatic patients often present with concerns about developing dementia, especially when they have a family history. The first, large-scale, randomized, primary prevention trials are com...