Tuesday, May 15, 2012
First Alzheimer's prevention study launched
The U.S. government launched an ambitious push to develop new treatments for Alzheimer's on Tuesday with a first prevention study of high-risk patients and tests on an insulin nasal spray that has shown promise in earlier studies.
- MSNBC
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
World Health Organization Dementia Report
There is growing worldwide recognition that dementia (and Alzheimer's disease in particular) is the global public health crisis of the 21st century - an impending epidemic that has rightly been described as a "ticking time bomb" by global public health expert Dr. Peter Piot. With its devastating impact on people with dementia, their families, their communities and national health systems, dementia represents not only a public health crisis but a social and fiscal nightmare as well.
- alz.co.uk
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Wednesday, April 04, 2012
New Way to Look at Alzheimer's
A book by Cathy Greenbalt, a author/photographer, shows a new, positive approach to care for people living with Alzheimer's. It focuses on the capabilities that they still have, rather than those they have lost. She and Jed Levine, Director of Programs & Services of the NYC Chapter of Alzheimer's Association, discuss this with David Ushery on New York Nightly News.
- NBC NY
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Thursday, March 22, 2012
Paul Allen Gives Millions for Brain Research
Paul G. Allen, a co-founder of Microsoft, announced on Wednesday that he would commit $300 million over the next 10 years to turn the Allen Institute for Brain Science, a nonprofit organization he established to build a database of neural information, into a center for basic neuroscience investigation.
- NY Times
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Alzheimer's Association awards largest-ever research grant to the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer's Network
The Alzheimer's Association announced today the awarding of its largest-ever research grant — nearly $4.2 million over four years — to the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer's Network-Therapeutic Trials Unit (DIAN-TTU), based at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, to enable the program to move forward more quickly with innovative drug and biomarker trials in people with genetically based, young-onset Alzheimer's disease.
- Alzheimer's Association
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Saturday, March 17, 2012
Why Bilinguals Are Smarter
Being bilingual, it turns out, makes you smarter. It can have a profound effect on your brain, improving cognitive skills not related to language and even shielding against dementia in old age.
- NY Times
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Thursday, March 08, 2012
2012 Alzheimer's Facts and Figures
Facts and Figures, an annual report released by the Alzheimer’s Association, reveals the burden of Alzheimer's and dementia on individuals, caregivers, government and the nation's healthcare system.
- Alzheimer's Association
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Thursday, March 08, 2012
NBC Nightly News with Chuck Scarborough
Lou-Ellen Barkan, President and CEO of the New York City Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association, tells Chuck Scarborough about the 2012 Facts and Figures Report by the Alzheimer's Association.
- NBC NY
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Wednesday, March 07, 2012
Dementia is a global health timebomb - global health expert Professor Peter Piot
Global health expert Professor Peter Piot will announce dementia is one of the largest global health challenges and call for the condition to become a top world health priority.
- Alzheimers.org
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Health and Human Resources releases National Alzheimer's Plan draft
The release of the first draft of the National Alzheimer's Plan is another positive step toward the nation's first-ever strategic plan for Alzheimer's. Comprehensive in scope, the draft plan addresses issues that are important to the Alzheimer's community including developing new treatments that prevent and effectively treat the disease, delivering much needed support for families, and enhancing care quality and effectiveness
- Alzheimer's Association
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
Finding Joy in Alzheimer's
So often, I hear people say they’d rather die than get Alzheimer’s. This is, in part, because they believe the disease will force them to abandon themselves to oblivion. But my grandmother showed me that we are more than the sum of our memories. She taught me the vital importance of forgetting; and that sometimes it’s only our commitment to remembering that prevents us from accepting the love and peace that surrounds us.
- NY Times
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012
The increasingly male face of caregiving
After 63 years of marriage, the couple had to develop their routine when Alzheimer's disease left Barbara unable to do things herself. But it's a routine that Doug Wyman — like a growing number of men who have assumed the role of caregiver in recent years — embraces proudly.
- Chicago Tribune
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Thursday, February 09, 2012
Alzheimer's Disease Symptoms Reversed in Mice
A nearly 13-year-old skin cancer drug rapidly alleviates molecular signs of Alzheimer's disease and improves brain function, according to the results of a new mouse study being hailed as extremely promising. Early-stage human clinical trials could begin within months.
- Scientific Amercian
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Tuesday, February 07, 2012
We can't wait: Administration announces new steps to fight Alzheimer's disease
The Obama Administration today announced new efforts to fight Alzheimer’s disease, including immediately making an additional $50 million available for cutting-edge Alzheimer’s research. In addition, the administration announced that its Fiscal Year 2013 budget will boost funding for Alzheimer’s research by $80 million. Today’s announcement also includes an additional $26 million in caregiver support, provider education, public awareness and improvements in data infrastructure.
- HHS
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Monday, February 06, 2012
Smoking linked to faster cognitive decline in men
Middle-aged men who smoke suffered more rapid cognitive decline than peers who have never smoked or who have been ex-smokers for at least 10 years, researchers reported Monday in the Archives of General Psychiatry.
- LA Times
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Monday, February 06, 2012
Cracks in the Plaques: Mysteries of Alzheimer's Slowly Yielding to New Research
This has been a big week in Alzheimer's news as scientists put together a clearer picture than ever before of how the disease affects the brain. Three recently published studies have detected the disease with new technologies, hinted at its prevalence, and described at last how it makes its lethal progress through the brain.
- Scientific American
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Sunday, February 05, 2012
The Campaign to Defeat Alzheimer's
There is hopeful news in the battle against Alzheimer’s disease, a type of dementia that gradually robs millions of older Americans of their memories and mental capacities and ultimately kills them.
- NY Times
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Thursday, February 02, 2012
Path is Found for the Spread of Alzheimer's
Alzheimer’s disease seems to spread like an infection from brain cell to brain cell, two new studies in mice have found. But instead of viruses or bacteria, what is being spread is a distorted protein known as tau.
- NY Times
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
A New Target in Fighting Brain Disease: Metals
Research into how iron, copper, zinc and other metals work in the brain may help unlock some of the secrets of degenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's
- WSJ
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
'I Remember Better When I Paint': Treating Alzheimer's through creative art
I Remember Better When I Paint, narrated by Olivia de Havilland, is the first international documentary about the positive impact of art and other creative therapies on people with Alzheimer’s and how these approaches can change the way we look at the disease. Among those who are featured are noted doctors and Yasmin Aga Khan, president of Alzheimer’s Disease International and daughter of Rita Hayworth, who had Alzheimer’s. A film by Eric Ellena and Berna Huebner, presented by French Connection Films and the Hilgos Foundation.
- Online
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Health Reform Explained Video: Health Reform Hits Main Street
Confused about how the new health care reform law really works? This short, animated movie -- featuring the "YouToons" -- explains the problems with the current health care system, the changes that are happening now, and the big changes coming in 2014.
- Youtube
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Medivation, Pfizer End Work on Alzheimer's Drug
Pfizer Inc. and partner Medivation Inc. are abandoning development of an experimental Alzheimer's drug, a decision that underscores the risks that Big Pharma faces in trying to bolster drug pipelines with expensive deals.
- WSJ
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
U.S. launches national war on Alzheimer's
When doctors told Carol Blackwell that her husband — her best friend and the love of her life — had Alzheimer's disease, they assured her "a cure was just around the corner."
- USA Today
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Monday, January 16, 2012
Personal Health: Lifelines for People With Hearing Loss
Hearing loss, a disability currently untreated in about 85 percent of those affected, may be the nation’s most damaging and costly sensory handicap. It is a hidden disability, often not obvious to others or even to those who have it.
- NY Times
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Monday, January 02, 2012
Nutrition: 4 Vitamins That Strengthen Older Brains
Higher blood levels of omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin B, vitamin C, vitamin D and vitamin E are associated with better mental functioning in the elderly, a new study has found.
- NY Times
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