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Dr. Barry Dworkin

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  • Study finds biomarkers in young people that may help predict the risk of developing cognitive disorders like Alzheimer’s. This may spur more research into the mechanism of the disorder and the means to prevent it.

    July 23, 2025

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for July 23, 2025 Source:Early Alzheimer’s Clues Found in Adults as Young as 24 Reference:“Risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive function before middle age in a U.S. representative population-based study”

  • Scientists hypothesize that an oral microbe might be responsible for the mechanism that leads to Alzheimer’s.

    February 24, 2025

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 24, 2025 Source:The Cause of Alzheimer’s Might Be Coming From Inside Your Mouth Reference:Porphyromonas gingivalis in Alzheimer’s disease brains: Evidence for disease causation and treatment with small-molecule inhibitors

  • Can cytomegalovirus infection lead to the development of Alzheimer’s later in life? Study suggests that there may be a link in a subset of people.

    January 8, 2025

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 8, 2025 Source:Scientists Discover Common Virus Could Be Causing a Type of Alzheimer’s Reference:Alzheimer’s disease-associated CD83(+) microglia are linked with increased immunoglobulin G4 and human cytomegalovirus in the gut, vagal nerve, and brain

  • New hypothesis proposes that Alzheimer’s is principally a disorder of the immune system within the brain. This, given alleged fabricated data in paper published in Nature in 2006, linking beta-amyloid as the causative agent.

    September 21, 2022

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for September 21, 2022 Source:Alzheimer’s Might Not Actually Be a Brain Disease, Expert Says Reference:Alzheimer’s disease as an autoimmune disorder of innate immunity endogenously modulated by tryptophan metabolites

  • Phase 2 study demonstrates that a new blood plasma Alzheimer biomarker may assist in earlier diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease

    April 26, 2022

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 26, 2022 Source:New Alzheimer’s Biomarker May Facilitate Rapid Diagnosis Reference:A possible blood plasma biomarker for early-stage Alzheimer’s disease

  • Alzheimer’s prevention Phase 1 trial will look at safety of nasal vaccine. Much to happen before any conclusions can be drawn from this study. Also, @billcarrolltalk and I also discuss the approval of COVID vaccine for 5-11 year-old children.

    November 22, 2021

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for November 22, 2021 Source:Nasal vaccine to treat Alzheimer’s disease to be tested in U.S. clinical trial COVID-19 vaccines for children

  • FDA approval process questioned as it approves new early-stage $56K US/year treatment for Alzheimer’s despite its own panel founding insufficient evidence of efficacy. Only when company changed the study endpoint did it show efficacy compared to placebo.

    June 8, 2021

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for June 8, 2021 Source:In controversial decision, FDA approves first new Alzheimer’s disease drug in nearly 20 years

  • Unpublished study begets questions about the neurological basis why having a “paying job” may help fend off Alzheimer’s in women.

    July 23, 2019

    Health Headlines Commentary for July 23, 2019 Source:Having a paying job may help fend off Alzheimer’s disease in women Reference:Presented their findings at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference recently in Los Angeles. 

  • There is no evidence from this study to suggest that antidepressants can triple the risk of people developing dementia.

    June 12, 2019

    Health Headlines Commentary for June 12, 2019 Source:Older people taking antidepressants could triple their risk of developing dementia: Study Reference:Exposure to Antidepressant Medication and the Risk of Incident Dementia

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