Alzheimer's News

Alzheimer's disease is the only major disease without a prevention or cure, and fatalities are on the rise.

More than 450 teams, totaling nearly 10,000 Alzheimera s supporters participated in the Alzheimera s Associationa s Delaware Valley Chaptera s annual Memory Walk, Sunday November 15th.A Walkers joined FOX 29 at Citizens Bank Park for this yeara s event to raise awareness and funds to fight Alzheimera s disease.

More and more families in Rock county are being touched by Alzheimers. Tammy Pence with the Alzheimer's Support Center of Rock County suggests more people take part in a screening earlier.

Published: Monday, November 16, 2009 at 6:30 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, November 16, 2009 at 1:08 a.m. After struggling for years with his mother's Alzheimer's disease, an Ocala man has developed a cell phone application to help caregivers reach their charges from a computer keyboard.

Former union law minister Ram Jethmalani Saturday kicked up a row at an international conference on terrorism, asking if Islam's jehadi doctrine does not virtually render 'god a brothel keeper', prompting a Saudi Arabian envoy to walk out of the conference.

People with dementia - who occupy a quarter of all hospital beds - are staying far longer in hospital than people without the condition who go in for the same treatment at a cost of hundreds of millions of pounds to the NHS, an Alzheimer's Society report found today .

Talk And Exhibition on Realities of Aging & Alzheimers And Realities of Aging, Submitted by Nancy Helle, Farmington Library & Donald Axleroad, artist, on 2009-11-19.   Three exhibitions are showcasing the work of award-winning artist Donald Axleroad at the Farmington Library through November 27.

New evidence supports a link between Alzheimer's disease and chronic heart failure, two of the ten leading causes of death in the United States.

U.S. medical scientists say they've developed a fast and accurate method for quantifying subtle brain structure changes occurring in Alzheimer's patients.

Angela Lunde is a dementia education specialist in the education core of Mayo Clinic's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at the Abigail Van Buren Alzheimer's Disease Research Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

A study by neuroscientist William C. Mobley, MD, PhD, chair of the Department of Neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, and colleagues at Stanford University Medical School has demonstrated a possible new approach to slowing the inevitable progression of cognitive decline found in Down's syndrome.

The study examines how dietary restriction and a high-caloric diet influence biochemical responses.

Alzheimer's is a brain disorder that is often associated with age. It is believed that over a half of a million Americans show symptoms of Alzheimer's and Dementia in their 30s, 40, or 50s.

Alzheimer's disease afflicts 20 thousand Western Massachusetts men and women. A memory screening could reveal tell tale signs.

Nutritionist Melanie Rozwadowski says the best brain foods are available at the supermarket in their raw, fibre-filled form.

Serial MRI brain scans, taken six months apart, show progression from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease, with significant atrophy and ventricle enlargement .

Keeping track of Alzheimer's patients is going high-tech. The Alzheimer's Association is adapting technology developed for monitoring prisoners to let caregivers track where their loved ones drive or walk -- and alert them if they go beyond the virtual fences each family can set.

It's estimated that 4.5 million Americans have Alzheimer's disease and that number is increasing at a fast rate with aging baby boomers.

The Aspirus Memory Clinic will hold free memory screenings on Tuesday for anyone who wants to check the status of their memory.

People with dementia are staying far too long in hospital, which is causing them to deteriorate, according to a report.