ANA News
July 15, 2019 - A healthy lifestyle can cut your risk of developing Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia even if you have genes that raise your risk for these mind-destroying diseases, a large study has found.
Learn more here: A healthy lifestyle may offset genetic risk for Alzheimer’s
July 9, 2019 - 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...
July 1, 2019 - 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...
July 1, 2019 - 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
June 25, 2019 - 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...