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Alzheimer's Disease Defined

A type of senility that can strike people from their early 40s to their 80s. It develops gradually and usually affects short-term memory first. Both the cause and the cure are unknown. The disease is usually fatal after 5 to 15 years

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Would you spend $4,000 to store your stem cells? One company hopes so

Published July 23, 2008, 4:32 am, TCPalm.com

"We're living longer but we're not living better," said Connie Araps, a vice president at AssureImmune, which launched last year with a $3 million budget. "This is an investment. We're looking at unprecedented activity around stem cells."

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Scientists Figure Out How The Immune System And Brain Interact To Control Disease

Published July 23, 2008, 2:10 am, Medical News Today

In a major step in understanding how the nervous system and the immune system interact, scientists at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research have identified a new anatomical path through which the brain and the spleen communicate. The spleen, once thought to be an unnecessary bit of tissue, is now regarded as an organ where important information from the nervous reaches the immune system.

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Boca Raton company banks on stem cells as the future of medicine

Published July 22, 2008, 9:47 pm, Sun-Sentinel

Start-up is offering to store your samples for future use Would you spend $4,000 to store your stem cells?

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Prana Biotechnology Announces Conference Call Following ICAD Presentations

Published July 22, 2008, 1:08 pm, Fox News

July 31, 2008 at Noon EDT (USA)

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Prana Biotechnology Announces Conference Call Following ICAD Presentations

Published July 22, 2008, 12:31 pm, Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance

Prana Biotechnology Limited, a biopharmaceutical company focused on the research and development of treatments for neurodegenerative disorders, announced today that the Company will be hosting a conference call with Geoffrey Kempler, Chairman and CEO, and Dr.

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Astonishing future of fertility

Published July 22, 2008, 10:32 am, The New Zealand Herald

Thirty years ago the birth of Louise Brown, the world's first test-tube baby, marked a genuine medical breakthrough - one of the few that deserves the title.

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Excerpt: 'The Unthinkable'

Published July 22, 2008, 7:32 am, NPR

On the morning of December 6, 1917, a bright, windless day, a French freighter called the Mont Blanc began to slowly pull out of the Halifax harbor in Nova Scotia. At the time, Halifax was one of the busiest ports in the British Empire.

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POM Wonderful Announces Purely Juice Found Guilty of Deceiving Customers With Adulterated Pomegranate Juice and False ...

Published July 22, 2008, 6:00 am, PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance

POM Wonderful announced today a legal victory for consumers when a US District Federal Court in Los Angeles found in favor of POM Wonderful in its lawsuit against Purely Juice, Inc. for false advertising and misleading marketing.

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Amorfix Life Sciences and Dr. Cashman receive Canadian Government grant to develop treatments for Alzheimer's Disease

Published July 22, 2008, 4:00 am, CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance

Amorfix Life Sciences , a company focused on treatments and diagnostics for brain-wasting diseases and the University of British Columbia , today announced a research collaboration to develop Alzheimer's treatments based upon the discovery of misfolded superoxide dismutase 1 protein in the brains of people with Alzheimer's Disease.

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Elan and Wyeth Announce Webcast To Discuss Bapineuzumab Phase 2 Clinical Trial Results

Published July 21, 2008, 11:23 pm, Centre Daily Times

Elan Corporation, plc (NYSE: ELN) and Wyeth (NYSE: WYE) today announced that the companies will hold a webcast at 6:00 p.m. Central Daylight Time (7:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time) on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 with the investment community to discuss the results of the Phase 2 clinical trial of bapineuzumab for Alzheimer's disease.

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