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38 min ago | Ohio.com

Educational workshop on Alzheimer's at Uniontown church

A workshop to educate community members about Alzheimer's disease is at 7 p.m. June 5 at New Life Episcopal Church, 13118 Church Ave.

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Related Topix: Health, Uniontown, OH, Ohio, Green, OH, Akron, OH

3 hrs ago | Customer Interaction Solutions

Free Alzheimer's training now available to local family caregivers

The local Home Instead Senior Care office is offering a unique approach to help Elkin area families manage the challenges of Alzheimer's and other dementias, diseases that eventually rob seniors of their memories and independence.

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Related Topix: Health, Elkin, NC, Dementia

4 hrs ago | Natural Holistic Health

Alzheimer's: An Explanation

Alzheimer's disease is a degenerative brain condition that affects mostly the elderly.

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Related Topix: Health, Family, Elderly (Senior Citizen), Medicine, Dementia

6 hrs ago | This Week Community News

Strawn Center sets Alzheimer's 5K

The Carol Strawn Center's Walk2Care4Alzheimer's 5K will be held Saturday, June 15, at the Rotary Park Pavilion, 925 Sharon Valley Road in Newark.

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Related Topix: Health, Licking County, OH

8 hrs ago | NewsOn6 Tulsa

'Pitch In' To Help Alzheimer's Awareness Saturday At ONEOK Field

Volunteers are needed to help break a world record and bring awareness to the Alzheimer's epidemic.

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Related Topix: Oneok, Energy, Health, Epidemic, Natural Disasters, Tulsa, OK

8 hrs ago | Business Journal

Washington University professor steers X Prize to Alzheimer's

A Washington University professor and a team of experts won a brainstorming competition that led the X Prize Foundation to raise a $50 million prize to motivate scientists and researchers to find effective treatments - and potentially a cure - for Alzheimer's disease.

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Related Topix: Health, Science / Technology, Space

8 hrs ago | WNYC-AM New York

Studies Question Potential Alzheimer's Treatment

Last year scientists reported that a skin cancer drug appeared to reverse the effects of an Alzheimer's-like disease in mice.

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Related Topix: Health

9 hrs ago | Central Western Daily

Alzheimer's home truths: call for more funding for sufferers

BITTERSWEET: Owen Schwilk wants more government funding so Alzheimer's disease sufferers can be cared for at home.

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Related Topix: Health

10 hrs ago | Cleveland.com

Walk to End Alzheimer's is great way to spend Saturday: Letter to Editor

If you are one of the few who hasn't known or loved someone with Alzheimer's yet .

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Related Topix: Health, Epidemic, Natural Disasters, Avon, OH

13 hrs ago | Redditch Advertiser

Taboo around Alzheimer's is still too great

TALKING about dementia is still too tough for more than a third of local people, the Alzheimer's Society has warned.

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Related Topix: Health

13 hrs ago | Charleston Gazette

Thanks for the memories luncheon

Jane Marks , who is retiring as director of the Alzheimer's Association West Virginia chapter, hugs the group's board president, Jerry Walker, at the annual "Thanks for the Memories" luncheon on Thursday at the Charleston Marriott.

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Related Topix: Health

14 hrs ago | PhysOrg Weblog

A new strategy required in the search for Alzheimer's drugs?

In the search for medication against Alzheimer's disease, scientists have focused - among other factors - on drugs that can break down Amyloid beta .

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Related Topix: Health

18 hrs ago | MarketWatch

Vitamin B may be the cheap cure for dementia

Pharmaceutical companies have been trying, without success so far , to concoct a drug that could stop the progression of Alzheimer's disease and dementia.

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Related Topix: Health, Folic Acid, Supplement, Medicine, Pharmacology

Thu May 23, 2013

Ukiah Blog Live

10 Benefits of Reading: Why You Should Read Every Day

When was the last time you read a book, or a substantial magazine article? Do your daily reading habits center around tweets, Facebook updates, or the directions on your instant oatmeal packet? If you're one of countless people who don't make a habit of reading regularly, you might be missing out: reading has a significant number of benefits, and ... (more)

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Related Topix: Health

EurekAlert!

New insights contradict promising Alzheimer's research

Approximately a year ago, the leading journal Science published an article about bexarotene as a potential Alzheimer's drug.

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Related Topix: Health

Science Daily

Cinnamon compound has potential ability to prevent Alzheimer's

That is, according to Roshni George and Donald Graves, scientists at UC Santa Barbara.

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Related Topix: UC Santa Barbara

University of Florida News

Anti-cancer drug viewed as possible Alzheimer's treatment doesn't work in UF study

An anti-cancer drug about to be tested in a clinical trial by a biomedical company in Ohio as a possible treatment for Alzheimer's disease has failed to work with the same type of brain plaques that plague Alzheimer's patients, according to results of a study by University of Florida researchers.

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Related Topix: Health, University of Florida

Science Daily

Drug reverses Alzheimer's disease deficits in mice

The research, funded by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Aging and Alzheimer's Association, reviewed previously published findings on the drug bexarotene, approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use in cutaneous T cell lymphoma.

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Related Topix: Health, University of Pittsburgh, Food and Drug Administration, Genetics, Medicine, Case Western Reserve University

NatureNews

Studies cast doubt on cancer drug as Alzheimer's treatment

Bexarotene, a cancer drug touted as a potential treatment for Alzheimer's disease, may not be the blockbuster remedy scientists were hoping for, according to several analyses published in Science on 24 May 1-4 . Four independent research groups report that they failed to fully replicate striking results published in the journal last year 5 by Gary ... (more)

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Related Topix: Health, Case Western Reserve University, University of Pittsburgh

Reuters

Labs reject dramatic findings on cancer drug in Alzheimer's mice

U.S. scientists say a dramatic result last year suggesting that a cancer drug already approved by U.S. regulators could quickly clear out Alzheimer's plaques in mice was too good to be true.

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Related Topix: Health, Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, New York