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Docuticker (Free subscription) | yesterday
Voices of Alzheimer’s Disease: Summary Report on the Nationwide Town Hall Meetings for People with Early Stage Dementia (PDF: 1.8 MB) Source: Alzheimer’s Association Hundreds of people living in the early stage of Alzheimer’s stated that the stigma associated with the disease is one of their top concerns during town hall meetings that the Alzheimer’s Association [...]
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
WASHINGTON | Scientists for the first time have peered into people’s brains to directly measure the ebb and flow of a substance notorious for its role in Alzheimer’s disease.
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Denver Post (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
Scientists for the first time have peered into people's brains to directly measure the ebb and flow of a substance notorious for its role in Alzheimer's disease.
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New York Newsday (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
WASHINGTON -- Scientists for the first time have peered into people's brains to directly measure the ebb and flow of a substance notorious for its role in Alzheimer's disease.
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Reuters UK (Free subscription) | yesterday
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Levels of a protein linked with Alzheimer's disease rise as people recover from brain injuries -- a surprising finding that may help explain why injuries boost the risk of developing the disease, U.S. and Italian researchers said on Thursday.
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WTF Is It Now?? (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
Pat Leahy finally comes out and says what everybody has been thinking -- that McInsane has developed Alzheimer's Disease. Somewhat. See also here .
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
FAIRFIELD, CT -- 08/27/08 -- Actor Hector Elizondo described the period in the late 1960s and early 1970s -- when his father, Martin, cared for his mother, Carmen, through her struggles with Alzheimer's disease -- as "the dark ages." "The..
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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
After a year of listening to the thoughts of more than 300 people diagnosed with early-stage Alzheimer's disease, the Alzheimer's Association released "Voices of Alzheimer's Disease" on Tuesday. The report revealed many patients in the early stages of dementia say they are prematurely perceived as debilitated -- even by close friends and relatives.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
ON OCTOBER 16 WORLD-RENOWNED SCIENTISTS WILL CONVENE TO SHARE CUTTING EDGE RESEARCH ON ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE, MEMORY AND AGING MORGANTOWN, W.Va., Aug. 26 /PRNew...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
ON OCTOBER 16 WORLD-RENOWNED SCIENTISTS WILL CONVENE TO SHARE CUTTING
EDGE RESEARCH ON ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE, MEMORY AND AGING
MORGANTOWN, W.Va., Aug. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On October 16th,
2008, the new $30 million Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute
(BRNI) located on the campus on West Virginia University and founded in
honor of U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller's mother, will play...
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Dr. Laura's Blog (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
I was a bit flabbergasted when a recent caller to my radio program described how incredibly resentful she was that her elderly aunt, deep in Alzheimer’s Disease, would repeat and repeat and repeat old history again and again and again. This caller was furious that her aunt wouldn’t recognize her, wouldn’t deal with the here [...]
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The Composed Gentleman (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
"My Name is Lisa" is a short film about a 13 year old girl dealing with her mother's Alzheimer's Disease. My Name is Lisa is the winner for the Best Short Film of 2007. Watch the film after the jump. It is very moving. It'll touch your heart. Cast: Carlie Nettles as LISA Sally Smythe as MOM Jeff Grimm as PIZZA DELIVERY GUY Facts: Alzheimer's is one of many serious and scary diseases still
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Ph articles (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An imaging method known as a PET scan may qualify doctors to determine whether a person has "plaques" in the brain that are a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease, according to a Finnish study published on Monday. The brain tissue of people with Alzheimer's disease contains abnormal clumps called amyloid plaques, nevertheless generally doctors cannot subsist sure if they are there...
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Denver Post (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
Q: I am a healthy 55-year- old man. My cholesterol runs a little high, but I don't smoke, my blood pressure is normal, and I eat well and exercise regularly. I don't have any family history of heart disease. I recently heard that statin drugs can prevent Alzheimer's disease. My mother developed Alzheimer's 2 years ago. I'm wondering if I should start taking a statin. What do you think?
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billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
In the beginning, it was little lapses that foreshadowed the grim diagnosis Eileen Cox Jones feared most. "She'd lose her keys - minor things at first," said John Jones, her husband of 28 years. "She'd leave her grade book or papers behind. She'd run ...
