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Number of Americans with Alzheimer’s expected to soar in coming decades

(Click for printable infographic) By ASHLEY WELCH CBS NEWS September 20, 2018, 2:40 PM The number of people living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias will double by 2060, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Alzheimer’s disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States […]


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 […]