ANA News
2019-07-09 – A health-care start-up called Partner Therapeutics began last year with a single product: a leukemia medicine approved in 1991 that doctors rarely prescribe anymore. The drug, Leukine, made so little money that its previous owner did not even bother to disclose sales. It just dumped them on revenue…
2019-07-01 – Scientists continue to uncover the many fascinating ways in which the trillions of microbes that inhabit the human body influence our health. Now comes yet another surprising discovery: a medicine-eating bacterium residing in the human gut that may affect how well someone responds to the most…
2019-07-01 – Operating before birth can minimize nerve damage caused by severe defects in tissue around the spinal column. Learn more here: A Boy Who Had Spinal Surgery in the Womb Stands on His Own Two Feet
2019-06-25 – The Derek Denny-Brown Young Neurological Scholar Award is the ANA’s most prestigious award. It recognizes early- to mid-career neurologists and neuroscientists who have made outstanding basic and clinical scientific advances toward the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and cure of neurological…
2019-06-25 – "Trials to delay or prevent the onset of Alzheimer dementia, and the development of blood-based biomarkers to screen for Alzheimer disease, are among the cutting-edge research initiatives that will be discussed at the ANA Annual Meeting.” - John C. Morris, MD, the Harvey A. and Dorismae Hacker…
2019-06-25 – When a decline in cognitive function impairs our social, occupational, or daily activities compared to our previous baseline, we are said to have dementia. However, these first cognitive abnormalities can first present as mild and have any number of causes, from Alzheimer’s disease, to vascular…
2019-06-21 – An international team spearheaded by researchers at McGill University has discovered a biological mechanism that could explain heightened somatic awareness, a condition where patients experience physical discomforts for which there is no physiological explanation. Their work, recently published in…
2019-06-18 – With support from the BRAIN Initiative, Indiana University Bloomington scientists have created brainlife.io, a new cloud-based tool for keeping track of neuroscience data & code for analyses, storing information, and producing visualizations. Learn more here: New cloud-based tool accelerates…
2019-06-18 – The NIH Office of Science Policy June 13 shared a blog post about a new collaboration with the NIH Library to assemble a resource on the legacy of Henrietta Lacks in biomedical research. Cells from Ms. Lacks’ cervical cancer were extracted 65 years ago, and the cells have contributed to important…
2019-06-05 – Please join us in congratulating and celebrating the achievements of our distinguished treasurer, Clifton (Cliff) Gooch, MD, who was recently appointed to the national ALS Association Board of Trustees. He is one of four new members of the 25-member national board. Learn more here: Dr. Clifton…