FRIDAY, July 18 (HealthDay News) -- It's one step forward, one step back in the search for treatments against Alzheimer's disease. In one of two studies in the July 19 issue of The Lancet, an older drug called dimebon...

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BEIJING, July 18 (Xinhuanet) -- Some doctors have suspected that Alzheimer's disease patients could be saved if the plaque that builds up in their brains could be removed, but a new vaccine that did just that suggests the theory...
Removing the toxic plaque that builds up on the brains of Alzheimer's sufferers fails to slow the disease, researchers found. The results of the five-year study disappointed dementia scientists and means the long-held consensus that eliminating...
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