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Two new drugs seek to treat Alzheimer’s at its onset

The search continues for a drug to treat the cause of Alzheimer’s after it was announced recently that a significant clinical trial involving the drug bapineuzumab had failed. According to The New York Times, the 1,100 Americans diagnosed with mild ...

The Danger of Hospitals for Someone with Alzheimer’

A study for the Annals of Internal Medicine highlights the challenges of hospitalizing someone with Alzheimer’s disease when they need medical care for another, treatable condition. Disorientation is common for someone with moderate to advanced ...

One Theory Likely to Impact Future Alzheimer’s Research

A recent commentary about Alzheimer’s and other brain diseases is getting attention in research circles.  After all, the author is a Nobel Prize winning scientist. In last month’s commentary in the journal Science, Stanley Prusiner expands on his ...

Working Women Juggle Even More with Aging Parents

A new report attempts to measure the cost of care giving for women who are still in the workforce.  The report by the Working Mother’s Research Institute estimates that 6.7 million American woman are devoting 10 billion unpaid hours a year to ...

Having a purpose in life helps fight Alzheimer’s

Find your purpose in life.  Certainly, it’s great advice for anyone, but now there’s evidence that it could also be helpful for someone with signs of Alzheimer’s. The decade-long study by the Memory and Aging Project at Rush University in ...

Dealing with an Early Alzheimer’s Diagnosis

Alzheimer’s is a progressive disease that is often difficult to diagnose in its early stages.  However, researchers have discovered new ways to detect Alzheimer’s even before a person shows many symptoms.  This is a positive development in many ...

A new attack on Alzheimer’s

There is some exciting news on the research front that I would like to share with you.  Two new studies will focus on drugs that might treat Alzheimer’s long before noticeable symptoms appear. Typically, the disease strikes people in their later ...
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