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Dementia: Vitamin B supplement tackles disease so why is drug industry spending billions? By Professor David Smith Published: 21:44 GMT, 17 March 2012 | Updated: 16:21 GMT, 19 March 2012 Modern medicine has let us cheat death.
We can replace organs, take pills to stave off heart disease, cure many cancers, and control previously fatal conditions such as diabetes. As a result, the average life expectancy is 80, whereas 100 years ago it was 52. Yet now, if these other illnesses don’t get us, it seems that dementia will. More than 800,000 Britons suffer from some form of the disease, with 75 per cent of them having Alzheimer’s. The world’s bestselling medication for Alzheimer’s (AD) is donepezil, marketed as Aricept until its UK patent ran out last month – and it’s now 80 per cent cheaper as a result.
Decline: A diseased brain, left, beside a healthy one. For those for whom it works, the drug improves quality of life for a year or two. It’s a folly that such huge amounts are pumped into searching for a ‘new Aricept’. But this puts all their eggs in one basket. Mindmapping. MindMapping: Mind Maps, PDF Management and Reference Management. Are you using mind mapping tools such as MindManager, FreeMind or XMind?
And reference management tools such as JabRef, Endnote, or Zotero? And do you sometimes even create bookmark in PDFs? Then you should have a look at SciPlore MindMapping. SciPlore MindMapping is the first mind mapping tool focusing on researchers’ needs by integrating mind mapping with reference and pdf management. SciPlore MindMapping offers all the features one would expect from a standard mind mapping software, plus the following special features for researchers: Adding Reference Keys Manually This feature allows assigning a reference key to a mind map’s node. SciPlore MindMapping is based on FreeMind (0.9 RC7 Max) and 100% compatible to FreeMind.
When you install SciPlore MindMapping you will be asked if you want to allow (anonymous) usage statistics. The Best Tools for Visualization. Visualization is a technique to graphically represent sets of data.
When data is large or abstract, visualization can help make the data easier to read or understand. There are visualization tools for search, music, networks, online communities, and almost anything else you can think of. Whether you want a desktop application or a web-based tool, there are many specific tools are available on the web that let you visualize all kinds of data. Here are some of the best: Visualize Social Networks Last.Forward: Thanks to Last.fm's new widget gallery, you can now explore a wide selection of extras to extend your Last.fm experience.
Last Forward Friends Sociomap: Friends Sociomap is another Last.fm tools that generates a map of the music compatibility between you and your Last.fm friends. Fidg't: Fidg't is a desktop application that gives you a way to view your networks tagging habits. Fidg't The Digg Tools: One more: Digg Radar. YouTube: Visualize Music Musicovery Last.fm music visual tools: Amazon. Tools & Resources.
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