Browsing Tag: Disease

Path Is Found for the Spread of Alzheimer’s

Alzheimer’s disease seems to spread like an infection from brain cell to brain cell. What is being spread is a distorted protein known as tau. This has immediate implications for developing treatments.
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Alzheimer's Prevention Camp Grows

Alzheimer's Disease (also known as dementia) is considered to be incurable. Once the damage to the brain is sufficiently advanced, there is no going back. But what if Alzheimer's Disease could be prevented?
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Is Sugar Toxic?

If Lustig is right, then our excessive consumption of sugar is the primary reason that the numbers of obese and diabetic Americans have skyrocketed in the past 30 years. But his argument implies more than that. If Lustig is right, it would mean that sugar is also the likely dietary cause of several other chronic ailments widely considered to be diseases of Western lifestyles — heart disease, hypertension and many common cancers among them.
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Short people more prone to heart disease: study

The findings, published in the European Heart Journal, suggest that short stature should be added to the list of known heart disease risk factors alongside obesity, advanced age and high cholesterol levels, the researchers said.
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Diabetes in the South Asian Community is on the Rise.

Diabetes in the South Asian Community is on the Rise. Project Advancing Care Together (ACT) under Sikh Aid Gears up by engaging through Health workshops
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Help Kanwarjeet Singh (from Rajpreet Kaur)

Kanwarjeet is a 26 year old Sikh from Punjab currently in Houston, TX receiving treatment for acute myeloid leukemia.
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