Does prevention for Alzheimer's disease exist?

Does prevention for Alzheimer’s disease exist?

The prevention of Alzheimer's disease is a growing public health concern amidst an ageing population. Meanwhile, there is no effective or curative treatment available where prevention could greatly reduce health costs. This review was based on reports of potential preventive factors, including modifiable lifestyle factors, as well as preventive pharmacological strategies. Although the present r...

Does particle disease really exist?

Sir,—The hypothesis of wear particles causing foreign-body reaction, periprosthetic osteolysis and eventually prosthetic loosening was already put forward in the 1970s (Brinkmann and Heilmann 1974, Willert et al. 1974). The term cement disease was coined in the 1980s (Jones and Hungerford 1987), generalized to particle disease in the 1990s (Harris 1994), and wear particles are still widely cons...

Particle disease really does exist

© 2017 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis on behalf of the Nordic Orthopedic Federation. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) DOI 10.1080/17453674.2017.1402463 Sir,—In a recent correspondence, Dr. Mjöberg questions the role of wear particles in the pathogen...

Does Fungal Infection Cause Alzheimers?

Does a spontaneous cure for Chagas' disease exist?

S ix Costa Rican Chagas’ disease patients, with wellknown acute phase history and no specific treatment were exam ined in several occasions during 39, 24, 32, 16 and 14 years, respectively, from the onset. N om e o f the patients presented heart abnormali­ ties as revealed by the conventional E K G and ergometry, exceptfor one o f them with an incomplete block o f the right bundle branch. Also,...