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NY Post: A new medical study of Alzheimer’s disease stresses the importance of family history when it comes to evaluating your disease risk. If you have a parent who’s had Alzheimer’s, think back to when they first started to show symptoms of the disease, such as confusion, memory loss or difficulty performing familiar tasks. That year is important — because the closer you are to it, the likelier you are to show degenerative signs of Alzheimer’s yourself, according to scientists at McGill University in Montreal. READ MORE
CBS NY: Researchers in Ohio have made a major breakthrough in the fight to cure Alzheimer’s disease. A team at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute have completely reversed the disease in experiments on mice. Scientists say that gradually reducing an enzyme called BACE1 reversed the formation of harmful plaque in the brain, improving each mouse’s mental function. Amyloid plaques in the brain disrupt the function of neural synapses and is one of the main symptoms of Alzheimer’s patients. READ MORE
Fox News: Cardiovascular exercise training may help slow the decline in brain function seen in Alzheimer's patients, a new review of past research suggests. Researchers assessed data from 19 studies conducted between 2002 and 2015 that examined the effects of exercise on cognitive ability in 1,145 people at risk of or diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Nearly 90 percent were randomized controlled trials, which are the most reliable type of study. READ MORE
MedicalXpress: Improving the trafficking of cellular proteins in brain cells holds possibilities for new treatments and even prevention for Alzheimer's disease, results of a new study suggest. Researchers found that a compound that enhances the shuttling of proteins within cells reduced the production of forerunners of two proteins implicated in brain cell death. Damage to, and destruction of, brain cells underlies this common form of dementia. READ MORE
NYUpstate.Com: On the first day of March, we start asking ourselves: When do we have to re-set our clocks again? Daylight saving time begins at 2 a.m. Sunday, March 11. That's when you'll move your clocks ahead an hour, to 3 a.m. You'll lose an hour of sleep when we spring forward, which could be bad for your health. A New England Journal of Medicine study found that heart attacks increased for the three days following the switch to DST in the spring. The U.S. Department of Transportation, which oversees time zones and daylight saving time, says that daylight saving time saves energy, reduces traffic fatalities, and reduces crime. READ MORE
