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...body's natural estrogen or that which is introduced during therapy - is protective. Now, two new, related studies in the Aug. 29 online edition of Neurology lend more support to that theory: these studies show that in women under 50, estrogen acts as a defense against later cognitive impairment, dementia and Parkinson's disease...
...cysts, and the other half had their ovaries removed prophylactically to prevent ovarian cancer. Lead investigator Dr. Walter Rocca, a neurologist and epidemiologist at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, and his team found that compared with women who had kept both ovaries, the risk of cognitive impairment or dementia was doubled in women who had both ovaries removed before age 48 or one ovary removed before...
...Australian Synchrotron, the largest such device in the Southern Hemisphere and one of about 40 worldwide. Researchers hope it will provide discoveries and answers across almost every field of science - whether it's seeing how insects breathe, designing new drugs, cleaning up contaminated soil or beating dementia. "It lets us probe matter right down to its building blocks," says the facility's science director, Professor Robert Lamb...
...that wins a prize," French critic Michel Ciment said last night, "and a film that surprises by not winning." The unexpected winner, of the Grand Prix du Jury (second place), was Naomi Kawase's The Mourning Forest, yet another parable of grieving and reconciliation. An old widower, institutionalized with dementia, is cared for by a woman who herself has lost her young son. (There were important deaths in every one of the winning films.) Determined to set the spirit of his dead wife free, the man sets out on a long quest through a forest, accompanied by the younger woman...
...league and the NFL Players Association responded by creating the “Number 88 Plan.” Named after John Mackey’s jersey number, the plan will pay up to $88,000 for each former player’s treatment of assorted types of dementia...