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| Today's News | Saturday, January 28, 2012 |
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Alzheimer’s Myth-Busting: Genes, Berries, and Fish Oil
(Source: Alzheimer’s Association - New York City Chapter) - When it comes to evaluating risk for developing a disease, there are factors that we can control and others with which we are simply born. When a family member is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, many people become worried they will also inevitably fall victim to the disease because of their genes.
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Final Guideline on Neuro-pathologic Assessment of AD
(Source: MedScape) - A panel from the United States and Europe charged with updating the 1997 consensus guidelines for the neuro-pathologic assessment of Alzheimer's disease has concluded its work.
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Alzheimer's Challenge 2012: Seeking New Tools to Help Improve Alzheimer's Care
(Source: Janssen Alzheimer Immunotherapy) – Janssen Alzheimer Immunotherapy, together with its collaborators introduced the Alzheimer's Challenge 2012 at the Care Innovations Summit in Washington, D.C. The Alzheimer's Challenge 2012 calls for inventive concepts to help improve the diagnostic identification and tracking of Alzheimer's disease.
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Avoiding Surgery in the Elderly
(Source: New York Times) - It may take members of our parents’ generation (and our own) a long time to get over thinking of hospitals as refuges of safety and operating rooms as harbingers of better days ahead. But it’s gradually becoming clearer that for the very old and frail, and for nursing home residents in particular, hospitals are places to avoid whenever possible, and surgery can become a source of danger in itself.
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Male Caregivers a Growing Segment of the Alzheimer Community
(Source: Alzheimer’s Association - New York City Chapter) - Pat Moffett, an energetic corporate executive, had spent years caring for his wife Carmen, who had younger-onset Alzheimer’s, when he received a stark message from her doctor, Gisele Wolf-Klein.
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