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...experimental drug called rember, developed by a Singapore-based company, also showed some promise in a safety study. Among 321 patients, rember appeared to stall advancement of the disease, degrading the protein tangles that build up in Alzheimer's brains. Potentially, a combination of drug therapies - designed to prevent both plaques and tangles - may prove effective in slowing the progression of the disease...
...benefits at all; or perhaps the emotional toll of losing a close partner damages cognitive functions in a way that puts these people at greater risk for dementia and Alzheimer's down the line. Either way, says Hakansson, the results suggest that "if you are looking for interventions to prevent Alzheimer's, one way may be to identify people who have been divorced or widowed, and who haven't adapted or gotten back into the social circle, and give them support with the aim of giving them new structure and social networks in their lives...
...beyond those already in progress. In July, Macau's government announced it would tighten visa restrictions for mainland tourists, halving the maximum length of their stay from 14 days to seven and requiring special approval to enter Macau via Hong Kong. The Macau police said the changes would help prevent potential mainland criminals from committing crimes during their stay, but many see the move as an attempt to curtail growth in the city's gambling market. Mainland Chinese, many of them wealthy high rollers, account for 55% of Macau's visitors...
...Indeed, critics say, India's government is ill-prepared to prevent domestic terrorism arising from religious extremism. The country has just 126 police officers per 100,000 people - the U.N. recommends 222 - and the Intelligence Bureau, which handles internal security, has a mere 3,500 field operatives for a country of 1.1 billion. In response to the growing threat, the central government is considering setting up a new federal agency to investigate major terrorism cases and is devoting more money to local intelligence-gathering...
...leaf," to keep him from obsessing about "adding to a growing pile of junkie memoirs," it doesn't end up that way. The Night of the Gun is in part a writerly exercise in defense and disarmament--memoir in the throes of an existential crisis. But that does not prevent it from being a great read. This is largely because, in using his reporter's chops to investigate his own past, Carr taps the very skills that propelled him to survive. His method, as much as his madness, is the story...