Scientists have chosen the first drugs that will be tested as part of a global clinical study to find ways to prevent Alzheimer’s disease. The news was announced Wednesday in a press release from Washington University in St. Louis, the home base for the research. https://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/24400.aspx The trial will kick..
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The National Football League has one less concussion-lawsuit plaintiff to worry about. Alex Karras, a former lineman for the Detroit Lions who had a second career as a pretty good actor, died Wednesday in Los Angeles, according to The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/11/sports/football/alex-karras-nfl-lineman-and-actor-dies-at-77.html?_r=0 According to a statement from his family..
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How about this as a model of good sportsmanship and compassion: You cheer your quarterback, who hasn’t been playing well, when he sustains a head injury during a game. Again, you can’t make this stuff up. On Sunday thousands of Kansas City Chief’s fans loudly cheered when quarterback Matt Cassel..
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Neuroscience “is a priority” at Stanford University, the school’s president said Saturday during a panel on “Gray Matters.” http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/october/roundtable-gray-matters-100612.html The roundtable on brain research, and how it can be applied in everyone’s life, was moderated by ABC News’ Juju Chang, a Stanford alumni. The panel included Stanford President John Hennessy;..
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It’s a shame that innocent people — in this case, five of meningitis– have to die. Perhaps now the government will take a serious look at closing a gaping hole in public safety. Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you are aware that there is a rare fungal meningitis..
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I recently read an Op-Ed piece that did the best job I’ve seen of explaining why it’s crucial for the United States to more aggressively find a cure for Alzheimer’s disease. In The Star-Ledger of New Jersey, writer Kerry Lonergan Luksic compared Alzheimer’s to a Category 5 hurricane “barreling toward..
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A former Mrs. Idaho sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI) this summer, but is on the road to recovery, according to NWCN.com. The ex-beauty queen was slated to appear on “The Today Show” yesterday, Monday. http://www.nwcn.com/home/?fId=172014071&fPath=/news/local&fDomain=10227 Jamie Hilton, who was Mrs. Idaho 2009, had a spill in Hells Canyon, Idaho,..
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Loni Sue Johnson with Severe Memory Loss Whenever I hear about cases of dramatic amnesia, it breaks my heart. And that was certainly the case when I read an article about Lonni Sue Johnson, a once-talented artist and musician, whose story was told by The Star-Ledger of Newark Sunday. http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/09/rare_amnesia_case_in_nj_artist.html..
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Hindsight is 20-20, as the saying goes. Just ask former Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon. McMahon, who has the early stages of dementia, told a Chicago TV station this week that if he could live his life over again, he would have played baseball, not football. USA Today was among..
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The parents of a Cliffside Park, N.J., high school football player — who died after sustaining a traumatic brain injury — have come to a $125,000 settlement with the local school district, according to The Record of Bergen County. http://www.northjersey.com/cliffsidepark/171419251.html The settlement marked the culmination of a lawsuit stemming from..
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