HenryFord.com - Niacin, or vitamin B3, a common water-soluble B vitamin, may help improve neurological function after stroke, according to an early NIH-funded study by Henry Ford Hospital researchers.
When rats with ischemic stroke were given niacin, their brains showed growth of new blood vessels, and sprouting of nerve cells which greatly improved neurological outcome.
Now research [...]

UTHSCSA.edu - Rapamycin, a FDA-approved medication that keeps the immune system from attacking transplanted organs, may have another exciting use: fighting Alzheimer’s disease.
Rapamycin rescued learning and memory deficits in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s, a team from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio reported February 23, 2010.
The study, in the Journal [...]

A higher prevalence of arthritis and arthritis-attributable activity limitations (AAL) is found in the U.S. versus the Canadian population, especially for women, according to researchers from the Toronto Western Research Institute. The authors attribute the higher prevalence of arthritis and AAL to a greater level of obesity and physical inactivity in Americans, particularly women. Full [...]

USCD.edu - A novel way to improve the symptoms of subsyndromal depression (SSD) in seniors is through the regular use of “exergames” – entertaining video games with the Nintendo Wii that combine game play with exercise - according to research from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. In a NIH-funded pilot study, [...]

AAN.com - A Mediterranean diet may help people avoid the small areas of brain damage that can lead to problems with thinking and memory, according to a recent study.
The NIH-funded study found that people who ate a Mediterranean-like diet were less likely to have brain infarcts, or small areas of dead tissue linked to thinking [...]

JAMA / Archives - Moderate or high physical activity appears to be associated with a lower the risk of developing age-related cognitive impairment in older adults after a two-year period. Thorleif Etgen, M.D., of Technische Universität München, Munich, and Klinikum Traunstein, Germany, and colleagues examined physical activity and cognitive function in 3,903 participants (older than [...]