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Clinical Trial Practitioners Key to Jumpstarting Alzheimer’s Research Efforts
GAP President John Dwyer was featured in ACRP about what clinical trials need to be doing to increase awareness and hasten treatments. The clinical trial industry continues to grapple with finding new and more effective ways to expand its efforts to combat Alzheimer’s. The obstacles are real. Alzheimer’s trials cost more per patient than trials […]
Aducanumab: Will this antibody open new pathways to treating Alzheimer’s?
Citizen Scientist nominee, Florida State Representative Matt Willhite, from GAP-Net site JEM Research Institute, speaks about his mother’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis and involvement in Biogen’s clinical trial. Surprise and skepticism greeted the Biogen company’s announcement that clinical trials of an antibody called aducanumab were resuming this year. Not only that, Biogen asked the federal Food and […]
An Alzheimer’s Quest: Enrolling More Black People in Clinical Trials
GAP President, John Dwyer, was featured in a Wall Street Journal article on the importance of Black, African-American, Hispanic and Latinx communities being aware of and enrolling in Alzheimer’s clinical trials, and what GAP is doing to help. Brian Van Buren applied to five Alzheimer’s disease clinical trials after being diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment […]
Alzheimer’s Research Impacted by COVID-19
GAP-Net site, Syrentis Clinical Research, and GAP President, John Dwyer, were interviewed about the difficulties of recruiting Alzheimer’s clinical trial volunteers in the time of COVID-19, and why their involvement is important. Alzheimer’s disease researchers fear that fewer volunteers and delayed studies due to COVID-19 may hinder the discovery of important treatments for the illness. […]
Top Doctors 2020
GAP-Net site, Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health Las Vegas, was included in the KNPR Top Doctors in Southern Nevada of 2020. How the Top Doctors are selected Castle Connolly Top Doctors is a healthcare research company and the official source for Top Doctors for the past 25 years. Castle Connolly’s established nomination […]
New Findings from AAIC Indicated Brain-Gut Axis to be the New Breakthrough in the Research Field of Alzheimer’s Disease
GAP-Net Site Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health at Cleveland Clinic Las Vegas was quoted about how microbiomes in the gut can affect the brain and lead to Alzheimer’s disease. SHANGHAI, July 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Alzheimer’s disease has been an unsolved puzzle for scientists since the first patient was found over 100 years ago. Different theories […]
‘Amazing, Isn’t It?’ Long Sought Blood Test for Alzheimer’s in Reach
GAP-Net site Washington University in St. Louis helped develop one of the tests that has diagnosed the disease as accurately as methods that are far more expensive or invasive. Banner Alzheimer’s Institute was also mentioned as a senior author. A newly developed blood test for Alzheimer’s has diagnosed the disease as accurately as methods that […]
Lou Ruvo Center Doc on Pandemic Setbacks
GAP-Net site Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas was featured on FOX5 about Alzheimer’s clinical trial setbacks due to COVID-19, and how important minority communities are to research. Click here to watch the full interview. LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — Dr. Aaron Ritter with the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for […]
Alzheimer’s Disease Treatment Pipeline: Hope is Trending
Dr. Jeffrey Cummings from GAP-Net site, Lou Ruovo Center for Brain Health at Cleveland Clinic in Las Vegas was interviewed by NeurologyLive about developments in Alzheimer’s disease research that are worth holding out hope for. A systematic review of Alzheimer disease (AD) treatments currently in development demonstrate the progressive emphasis on nonamyloid targets, including candidate […]
Local Columnist Surprised by Result of Memory Assessment
Below is a press release from GAP-Net site, Okanagan Clinical Trials, regarding a high profile member of the community completeing a memory assessment. Kelowna (July 21, 2020) – Maxine Dehart, local city councillor, hotelier and journalist, decided to book a memory assessment for herself after featuring Okanagan Clinical Trials as part of her Straight from DeHart column in May. […]