Alzheimer’s Disease
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HBO series details Alzheimer’s pain, progress
Date: 5/9/2009 4:23 PM LYNN ELBERAP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Maria Shriver said her role in a major HBO documentary series on Alzheimer’s stems from the professional and the intensely personal. “I approached this project as a child of Alzheimer’s,” she said, a reference to her father, Sargent Shriver, who was diagnosed in ...
Texas officials say layover mystery a homicide
Date: 11/18/2008 DALLAS (AP) _ A mysterious disappearance of an Alzheimer’s patient during a layover at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport seven years ago became a homicide case Monday after an examination of skeletal remains found miles from the airfield. The Tarrant County medical examiner used DNA tests to identify the remains as 70-year-old Marjorie Dabney ...
When Alzheimer’s hits at 40
Date: 11/14/2008 By SHIRLEY S. WANGThe Wall Street Journal Brian Kammerer, the 45-year-old chief financial officer of a small hedge fund, called his wife one day from a cellphone in the men’s room of his Manhattan office building. A colleague had just asked him for something, he whispered, but he had no idea what it ...
Arizona health officials issue rabies warning
Date: 11/7/2008 Arizona health officials issue rabies warning PHOENIX (AP) _ Officials with the Arizona Department of Health Services say the state is on track to count a record number of rabies cases this year. They are warning people to take precautions to avoid being exposed to the fatal disease, including avoiding wild animals that ...
Author Jon Katz writes of dogs, death and healing
Date: 11/2/2008 5:27 PM By MARY ESCHAssociated Press Writer WEST HEBRON, N.Y. (AP) — Jon Katz and companion Izzy, both wearing the photo IDs of hospice volunteers, are greeted brightly as they enter the dining room at Pleasant Valley Infirmary. While Katz chats and jokes with caretakers and residents seated around tables, Izzy scans the ...
Mich. voters to decide stem cell research measure
Date: 10/13/2008 4:56 AM By TIM MARTINAssociated Press Writer LANSING, Mich. (AP) _ Michigan voters will be thrust into the crossroads of science, ethics and religion next month when they decide whether to loosen the state’s restrictions on embryonic stem cell research. Supporters of the ballot measure say it could put Michigan researchers at the ...
Study: ‘Pre-dementia’ is rising, especially in men
Date: 07/28/2008 04:33 PM By MARILYNN MARCHIONEAP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) _ A milder type of mental decline that often precedes Alzheimer’s disease is alarmingly more common than has been believed, and in men more than women, doctors reported Monday. Nearly a million older Americans slide from normal memory into mild impairment each year, researchers ...
More fit Alzheimer’s Patients had less brain atrophy
The below AP Story about the relationship between fitness and Alzheimer’s disease has an interesting personal relevancy for me. Last Saturday, I ran in a race with a very mentally sharp older individual, who has no hint of senility. This individual was 90 years old. This individual was my father, Gordon S. Johnson, Sr. of ...
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