Tag: Alzheimers

Can the shingles vaccine ward of dementia?

In the retrospective study (which means they looked back at historical data), researchers analyzed the health records of older Welsh adults and discovered that those who received the shingles vaccine were 20% less likely to develop dementia over the next seven years than those who did not receive the vaccine.

Groundbreaking drug for schizophrenia has roots in ancient Egyptian medicine

The approval of this new drug for schizophrenia an example of what molecular pharmacologist Andrew Tobin calls “an emerging golden age of muscarinic drug development”.