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Research into Alzheimer's disease seems an unlikely approach to yield a better way to fight urinary tract infections, but that's what scientists recently reported.
There will be a free educational and informative seminar on Alzheimer’s Wednesday evening at Parkland Health Center in Farmington. The free program will be held in the hospital dining room from 6 to 8 p.m., and will be hosted by the Lead Belt Memory Walk Committee and the St. Louis Region Alzheimer’s Association.
Forgetting where you put your keys happens to everyone now and then. But, when forgetfulness interferes with activities of daily living -how to get dressed, how to find the way home - it could be Alzheimer's disease.
Kathy Siggins has walked a lot of miles to battle Alzheimer's — 16 years to be exact. Oct. 25 marked just another time that the Mount Airy resident teamed up with friends and family at the Alzheimer's Association Memory Walk held at the Maryland School for the Deaf in Frederick.
NEW HAVEN — A new nationwide program matches Alzheimer’s patients with state-of-the-art examinations and diagnostic tests for no charge.
November is Alzheimer's Awareness Month. Every 70 seconds someone in the United States develops Alzheimer's disease, and the number of cases is expected to double every 20 years. This devastating and progressive disease not only affects patients, but also takes a physical toll on the friends and family members who care for them.
Scientists have found 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 one of the researchers, "it may cause an impairment of neuronal function, as well as a further and faster accumulation of amyloid-beta in Alzheimer's."
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.
MARIETTA, Pa. — Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer’s disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler’s diarrhea. You name it, the pharmaceutical industry is working on a vaccine to prevent it.
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.
A local woman turns her personal experience with Alzheimer's disease into an organization to help others. Kae Hammond founded "ALZ Life Matters" after her experience caring for her own mother.
The Southwest Georgia Region of the Alzheimer’s Association still plans to relocate its office from Albany to Tifton to be more centrally located, but has yet to find a donated space here to set up shop.
In a study that promises to improve diagnosis and monitoring of Alzheimer's disease, scientists have developed a fast and accurate method for quantifying subtle, sub-regional brain volume loss using magnetic resonance imaging.
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