Alzheimer Dementia News

• Current Status Of The Development Programs Of New Indications And Formulations For Aricept(R) For Enhancing Patient Value

  Found on Alzheimer Dementia News. Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 11:00am CEST

  Eisai Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo, President & CEO: Haruo Naito, "Eisai") and Eisai Corporation of North America (Headquarters: Woodcliff Lake, NJ, Chairman and CEO Hajime Shimizu) are currently focusing on three clinical development programs for the company's major product Aricept(R) (donepezil hydrochloride tablets) to further contribute to patients with Alzheimer's ...

• Alzheimer's Gene Risk Higher For Those Widowed in Mid Life and Stay Without a Partner

  Found on Alzheimer Dementia News. Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 11:00am CEST

  Researchers in Sweden found that people who have the APOE Alzheimer's gene and who live alone in middle age after being widowed or separated from a life partner, are at higher risk of developing dementia. The study is the work of Dr Krister Hakannson, a research fellow at the Karolinska ...