There are four medications approved in the UK to ease a person’s dementia symptoms, including memory and thinking problems: donepezil rivastigmine galantamine memantine. These treatments are only ...

"These results are exciting, because right now there are no drugs to prevent or treat dementia with Lewy bodies, which is the second most common neurodegenerative type of dementia after Alzheimer ...

There is also some evidence that memantine is effective for treatment of vascular dementia. Information about ... about the long-term effects of these drugs on disease progression and longevity.

Researchers are investigating whether drugs currently used for diabetes ... we often would hear, ‘Oh, there’s nothing you can do about dementia, it’s just an inevitable part of ageing ...

Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors, also known as gliflozins, lower blood sugar by prompting the kidneys to filter sugar out of the bloodstream and excrete it in urine, researchers ...

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Dementia drugs that help manage symptoms ... fluid to confirm patients actually have Alzheimer’s disease - as there are many types of dementia - before treatment can start.

18, at noon. Attendees will learn what’s new and what’s true about medications for memory, other aspects of cognition and dementia-related behaviors.

Bill's was the type of dementia that romped through him - there were only three years between ... I printed out all Bill's details, medications and needs and simply handed them to the nurse.

to identify a link between people on the medication and the likelihood of developing vascular dementia. If the results are promising, they hope to move to clinical trials. Dr Susan Kohlhaas, executive ...

Vascular dementia rates among people on SGLT2 inhibitors were nearly 11 cases per 10,000 person-years, compared to nearly 19 for people on other drugs. And Parkinson’s rates were a little more ...

Its use there has soared, as it has almost everywhere. Weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy seemed to work magic when they were launched and are quickly being joined by other drugs that work ...