SYDNEY, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) — With the once dominant amyloid hypothesis of Alzheimer’s disease suffering yet another crushing blow this week, the field is desperate for a ray of hope. Enter S2N, a new Australian biotech pioneering an all-new neurorestorative approach, aiming to rebuild and replace the lost brain cells in Alzheimer’s that underlies clinical symptoms. [...]
NEW YORK, Sept. 1, (Korea Bizwire) – ImmunoBrain Checkpoint Inc. (“IBC”) announced today that it has been awarded a $1,000,000 grant from the Alzheimer’s Association under the 2020 Part the Cloud-Bill Gates Partnership Grant Program to support a phase 1 clinical trial to examine safety and activity of its proprietary antibody, IBC-Ab002, targeted to enhance the [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Seniors who either have trouble falling asleep for more than thirty minutes or who sleep more than eight hours a day are at greater risk of having their cognitive abilities deteriorate. More specifically, seniors who drift off to sleep after the thirty-minute mark are at 40 percent greater risk [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A report published by South Korean medical researchers has revealed that a simple test consisting of getting up from a chair and walking for a short distance can be used to assess a person’s risk of dementia. The research team composed of doctors from SNU Hospital and Samsung Medical [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Residents of a public housing apartment complex in Seoul’s Nowon District have seen their cognitive abilities improve thanks to a number of simple modifications and additions as part of the city’s “Cognitive Health Design” program. The metropolitan government surveyed 403 residents, 202 of them in their 40s and above, [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The new state program for dementia patients proposed by President Moon Jae-in is expected to affect some hundreds of thousands of patients suffering from memory loss and their families in the country, experts said Wednesday. During the presidential campaign, Moon had stressed that the government should take more responsibility [...]
SEOUL, April 2 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will run the country’s first villages reserved for people suffering from dementia and their families, the health ministry said Sunday. The ministry said it will announce plans for the pilot program and designated three candidate villages in April, with the program slated to go into full swing [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – A group of South Korean scientists has discovered a new molecule that can be used to treat Alzheimer’s disease, the state-run science laboratory said Monday, a discovery that could help reduce the number of people suffering from the neurological disorder down the road. Alzheimer’s disease is a disorder characterized [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – A team of scientists from Kyung Hee University’s College of Korean Medicine revealed Wednesday that it had found ingredients in herbal medicine to be helpful in preventing memory failure, as well as boosting memory functions. Prior to the team’s clinical trials on lab mice using herbal medicine, some 200 [...]
DAEJEON, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Scientists from the DGMIF (Daegu-Gyeongbuk Medical Innovation Foundation) have successfully increased the effects of brain disease treatment by using ultrasound to stimulate the blood-brain barrier (BBB). According to the team, the BBB regulates drugs or metabolites flowing into the central nervous system (CNS), thus reducing the effects of therapeutic [...]