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10 hrs ago | Detroit News

Alzheimer's study: Progress, but back of pack in funding

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

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Related Topix: Health, Michigan, HIV/AIDS

Yesterday | MyFoxPhilly

2009 Memory Walks a Huge Success

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.

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Related Topix: Health

Yesterday | The Janesville Gazette - Janesville, ...

November is Alzheimer's Awareness Month

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.

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Related Topix: Health

Sat Nov 21, 2009

Ocala Star-Banner

From Ocala, a new tool in the fight against Alzheimer's

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.

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Related Topix: Health, Ocala, FL, Ocala Metro, Cell Phones, Cellphones, Electronics, Keyboards

New Delhi News.Net

Is god a brothel keeper, wonders ex-law minister and triggers row

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.

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Related Topix: World News, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Health, Pratibha Patil

MediLexicon

Poor Dementia Care In Hospitals Costing Lives And Hundreds Of Millions, UK

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 .

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Related Topix: Health, Nursing, Medicine

Fri Nov 20, 2009

Hartford Courant

Farmington: Talk And Exhibition on Realities of Aging & Alzheimers And Realities of Aging,

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.

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Related Topix: Health, Farmington, CT, Medicine, Dementia

Health Scout

Link Between Alzheimer's and Heart Failure

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.

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Related Topix: Health

Thu Nov 19, 2009

OfficialWire

Alzheimer's Brain Changes Studied

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

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Related Topix: Health, UC San Diego

Mayo Clinic

Memory screening can be a good thing, but not for everyone

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.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Dementia, Health, Rochester Metro, Rochester, MN

Newswise

Cognitive Dysfunction Reversed in Mouse Model of Down's Syndrome

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.

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Related Topix: UC San Diego, Medicine, Dementia, Health

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Science Daily

Molecular Trigger Helps Prevent Aging and Disease

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

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Related Topix: Geriatric Medicine, Medicine, Biology, Science

OfficialWire

November Is National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month

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.

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Related Topix: Health

ClipSyndicate

Local seniors take advantage of a free memory screening

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

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Related Topix: Health, Video

Canada.com

Eat well for your heart and reap a brain bonus

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

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Related Topix: Circulation, Medicine, Health, Life, Food, Nutrition, North America, Canada, World News,

PhysOrg Weblog

Analyzing structural brain changes in Alzheimer's disease

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

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Related Topix: UC San Diego

Tue Nov 17, 2009

KOLN-TV Lincoln

Going High-Tech to Track Alzheimer's Patients

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.

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Related Topix: Health

ClipSyndicate

National memory screening day

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.

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Related Topix: Health, Video

Wausau Daily Herald

Aspirus holds memory screenings

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

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Related Topix: Health, Wausau, WI, Wausau Metro

Hampshire Chronicle

Call over care of dementia patients

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

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