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After the Alzheimer's came, my mother could not know how shadows fell across our once ebullient family: our solidarity fractured, our tempers flaring in furious incomprehension, hearts breaking in mute despair.
Ashen-faced was the way the press described Brooke Astor's son when he heard the jury's verdict convicting him of defrauding his mother of tens of millions of dollars as she lay dying of Alzheimer's disease. Barring an appeal, Anthony D. Marshall, 85, will be sentenced in early December. He faces...
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.
WESTAMPTON — New Jersey State Police say a woman suffering from Alzheimer's disease died in a fiery, three-vehicle crash on the New Jersey Turnpike in Burlington County this morning. Sgt. Stephen Jones says Ellen Liedtka, 67, slowed or stopped her...
Scientists have found that combining two chemicals, one of which is the green tea component EGCG, can prevent and destroy a variety of protein structures known as amyloids. Amyloids are the primary culprits in fatal brain disorders such as Alzheimer's, Huntington's, and Parkinson's diseases.
New Jersey state police confirm that a missing Burlington County, NJ woman suffering from Alzheimer's disease died in Tuesday morning's fiery multi-vehicle crash on the New Jersey Turnpike.
Oregon researchers have solved the mystery of the structure of a brain receptor involved in Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy, schizophrenia, and many other diseases.
Alzheimer’s disease takes a devastating emotional toll on families but it also is one of the most expensive conditions to treat because of its progressive nature.
yce Irene Lundgren, 72, of Haxtun, died after seven years of Alzheimer’s disease Nov. 24, 2009, in Haxtun. Visitation for Joyce will be until 7 p.m. today, Friday, Nov.27, at Gerk Funeral Home in Haxtun.
Two experts recently partnered to literally re-write the manual for families and caregivers to help them offer a dementia patient the best possible quality of life.
WESTAMPTON — A 67-year-old Mercer County woman with Alzheimer’s disease was killed earlier this morning in a fiery, three-vehicle crash on the New Jersey Turnpike, state police said.
The songwriter behind the Elvis Presley hit It's Now or Never has died.
The Queens district attorney’s office sentenced a straw buyer who conned a 93-year-old Alzheimer’s patient into foreclosing his homes in Bayside and Jamaica to telling the public about her crime after she serves a brief period in jail.
Scientists have discovered that a precursor to nerve growth factor (pro-NGF) may play a pathogenic role in Alzheimer's disease.
The holidays are different for those caring for the chronically ill.
Dorothy Eileen (Mikita) Madsen, 71, died November 23, at her home in Oxford, after a long, courageous battle with Alzheimer's. Born on July 11, 1938, in Bridgeport, she was the daughter of the late Frank Mikita and Helen Pawlowicz.
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