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DR. URI YOEL of the Soroka Medical Center conducted a new study that examined patients aged 65 and over who had undergone hip fracture surgery and were subsequently treated in the geriatrics department.

Soroka-University Medical Center saves bones and lives with new special department

 Inhalation of xenon gas shows promise as a neuroprotective treatment for Alzheimer's Disease. Illustration.

Inhalation of xenon gas shows promise as a neuroprotective treatment for Alzheimer's Disease

(L-R) In green - herpes virus proteins. In red - Alzheimer’s tau. In orange - a merge of the two.

Alzheimer's covertly linked to Herpes Simplex virus

By Ben Edidin
 Microglia and neurons.

New study reveals dark microglia's role in Alzheimer's disease, paving way for treatments

 Walk to end Alzheimer's at Big Spring International Park.

Researchers link common herpes virus to a specific form of Alzheimer's disease

 These two occupations can shield you from Alzheimer's, new study suggests.

These two occupations can shield you from Alzheimer's, new study suggests

 REAL BRAIN exhibit at Bristol Science Centre, UK.

A new Israeli clinical trial is testing a tuberculosis vaccine to prevent Alzheimer's

 There’s such a thing as good obesity.

Good obesity? Healthy obesity reduces Alzheimer risk, study finds

 STUDENT Yair Barak explains the team’s experiment to some professionals.

Space travel could improve Huntington's disease? High school students contribute to study

 A PERSON WALKS over a gait mat embedded with force-sensitive sensors in a state-of-the-art lab, with a wearable sensor positioned on his lower back.

Tel Aviv researchers develop wearable sensor capable of neurological disorder detection

 Israeli researcher Eilam Yeini examines a microscope image of a blood vessel tube surrounded by cancer tissues, as part of a brain cancer research that uses patients' cells to make 3D printed models of tumours, at Tel Aviv University, Israel August 17, 2021.

New developments in the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease

An illustration of a radiologist analyzing a head CT scan

FDA approves 'donanemab' treatment for Alzheimer's disease

 DEAN ORNISH, president and founder of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute and a clinical professor of medicine at University of California, San Francisco, speaks during the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, in 2017.

We must change the prejudices of mainstream medicine against lifestyle intervention

 An illustrative image of a brain.

Researchers link disturbances in metal to memory

 Alzheimer's disease (illustrative).

'Now You Are Here': For those caring for loved ones with Alzheimer's

New blood test for detecting Alzheimer's made available in Israel.

Simple blood test detecting Alzheimer's disease now available in Israel

 Photos of Prof. Rahimipour.

Academic collaboration: Israeli, Italian researchers suggest intervention in early Alzheimer's

 (From L) MICHAEL & APRIL ROSENFELD with Prof. Menahem Ben Sasson, chancellor of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, during the Wall of Life ceremony on Mount Scopus

‘I’m just a typical Jewish grandmother’