Monthly Archives: May 2017


First Alzheimer’s Patient Treated with Focused Ultrasound to Open Blood-Brain Barrier

The blood-brain barrier prevents almost all potentially therapeutic drugs from passing into the brain. This has been a major roadblock for clinical neurology, but we may have a solution, perhaps a partial one, in the form of focused ultrasound. The first Alzheimer’s patient has just been treated using ultrasound to […]


40-Percent Alzheimer’s Funding Increase Is Victory for All Americans

40-Percent Alzheimer’s Funding Increase Is Victory for All Americans UsAgainstAlzheimer’s applauds Congressional leaders’ bipartisan effort to make Alzheimer’s a priority; urges swift approval by legislative and executive branches WASHINGTON, DC—A bipartisan agreement to increase Alzheimer’s funding by $400 million at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for FY 2017, part […]