Indiana University School of Medicine researchers found that niacin limits Alzheimer's disease progression when used in models in the lab, a discovery that could potentially pave the way toward therapeutic approaches to the disease.
The study, recently published in Science Translational Medicine, investigates how niacin modulates microglia response to amyloid plaques in an Alzheimer's disease animal model.
In the brain, niacin interacts with a highly-selective receptor, HCAR2, present in immune cells physically associated with amyloid plaques. When niacin-;used in this project as the FDA-approved Niaspan drug-;activates the receptor, it ...
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The partial government shutdown and Medicaid
Medicaid is funded through September 2019. Moreover, the State of Nebraska administers Medicaid and it is not shutdown.
Therefore, Medicaid applications and payments will proceed normally. ...
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Medicaid compliant annuities are not a countable resource.
Husband entered the nursing home on July 21, 2010. His wife was well. The wife consulted an attorney and she reconfigured her assets in a conventional way and clearly permitted by North Dakota law. The wife also purchased a single-premium (lump sum) immediate annuity for $400,000. The annuity was required to pay the wife $2,734 per month over 13 years.
The State of North Dakota denied the husband's application of Medicaid benefits. The State was of the opinion that the annuity was a countable resource. The couple filed a lawsuit in the federal district court and won. North Dakota, and eight other states, appealed to the Eighth ...
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