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Imagine standing by helplessly as your memories, the things that make you who you are, slip away. That's what patients with Alzheimer's Disease go through. But some patients are getting help fighting the effects of this disease from a new type of food.
( University of Southern California ) In spite of their genetic similarity to humans, chimpanzees and great apes have maximum lifespans that rarely exceed 50 years. A new study argues that humans have evolved genes that enable us to better adjust to infection, inflammation and our meat rich diets.
Once you become an Alzheimer's caregiver, vast life changes and sacrifices need to be made. Your holiday plans may be disrupted because simple family rituals have taken your Alzheimer's victim out of his or her daily routine.
New research shows that recreational users of the drug known as ecstasy may be at a higher risk for sleep apnea. The study is published in the December 2, 2009, online issue of Neurology(r), the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
Holiday festival of trees: A Business After Hours open house will run from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Spring Mill Health Campus, 101 W. 87th Ave. Visitors may bid on decorated wreaths and trees for homes or businesses. All items have been donated by area businesses. Proceeds benefit the Alzheimer's Association. Call 756-0744 to R.S.V.P. MERRILLVILLE Angel tree lighting ceremony: Calumet Park ...
Six weeks before Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Mississippi's Gulf Coast, Marguerite Martin was diagnosed with mid-stage Alzheimer's disease.
Tease your brain in some new ways.
When Arlene Olaynick's husband, Ted, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease in 2004, the news devastated her. "I used to cry every day," she said recently from her Carson City home. "It was like he changed overnight." His mood swings were difficult to handle and he was stubborn, she said. She was close to putting her husband of 52 years into an assisted living facility until one day she had an ...
Kassie Rose, 30 years old, faces a frightening prospect: if a genetic coin toss fails to go her way, she could lose her mind within a decade or two. A mutation that causes Alzheimer’s disease runs in her family, the DeMoes of North Dakota. The odds of any DeMoe harboring the mutation are 50–50, and if the mutation is present, the chances of developing early-onset Alzheimer’s--the type that ...
"New Prospective-Treatment Options for Alzheimer's Disase," a free community lunchand learn/memory-screening event, is set for noon-1 p.m. Dec. 3 at Monroe Village, One David Brainerd Drive.
( American Friends of Tel Aviv University ) In a new study published in Nature Neuroscience, Dr. Inna Slutsky of Tel Aviv University's Sackler Faculty of Medicine finds that the amyloid-beta protein, currently the target of Alzheimer's drug research, is essential for normal information transfer through nerve cell networks in the brain. "If this protein is removed from the brain," says Dr ...
Alzheimer's Association, Greater New Jersey Chapter, will hold a caregiver support group meeting 7 p.m. Dec. 17 at Oak Woods Senior Housing, 700 Woods Lane, Monmouth Junction section of South Brunswick. For more information, call the helpline at 1-800-883-1180.
Life sciences will be our country's most important sunrise industry over the next several decades. Because of this sunrise, tens of millions of baby boomers can expect to live longer and live better.
San Dieguito Art Guild winners Judy Briggs of La Jolla (left) shares the first place spotlight with Linda Phillips of Vista. Drive aids foster teens The UCSD Foster Youth Workgroup partnered with Soroptimist International of La Jolla for the first Home for the Holidays campaign, which collected items for 18-year-old foster teens beginning life on their own. The "Just in Time for Foster Youth ...
NEW HAVEN — A new nationwide program matches Alzheimer’s patients with state-of-the-art examinations and diagnostic tests for no charge.
Over the past year, a chorus of concern about Florida Power & Light's push to expand its Turkey Point facility has steadily grown louder. Several cities have voiced opposition to the high-voltage lines that would carry power from the larger plant along U.S. 1 to downtown Miami.
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