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Middle-age smoking increases dementia risk OAKLAND, Calif., -- Heavy smoking during middle age increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia by more than 150 percent, U.S. researchers say. Rachel A. Whitmer, a research scientist with the Kaiser Permanente division of...

Non-surgical way to treat brain cavernoma? HEIDELBERG, Germany, (UPI) -- German scientists say they might have found a non-surgical way of treating benign vascular malformations in the brain known as cavernomas. Cavernomas, which can occur in many tissues of the body, are characterized by...