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| Today's News | Thursday, March 18, 2010 |
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Fruit Flies and Test Tubes Open New Window on Alzheimer's
(Source: University of Cambridge) - A team of scientists from Cambridge and Sweden has discovered a molecule that can prevent a toxic protein involved Alzheimer's disease from building up in the brain. They found that in test tube studies the molecule not only prevents the protein from forming clumps but can also reverse this process. Then, using fruit flies with Alzheimer's, they showed that the same molecule effectively "cures" the insects of the disease.
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Midnight Munchies Keep Elderly Safer In NY Nursing Home
(Source: NPR) - Midnight snacks aren't just for college students anymore. Like many nursing homes, the Parker Jewish Institute in New Hyde Park, NY, was having problems with some of its patients with dementia wandering at night. The staff worried about falls, but they didn't want to hand out more psychotropic medicines that would make the patients sleepy, because that increased the risk of falling. Of the 42 residents, 8 to 10 were constantly moving.
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Dance and Drama Workshops Helping Dementia Sufferers
(Source: The Times) - The lights are dim and a glitter ball on the ceiling throws white spangles across the walls and floor as ten couples waltz tentatively to the tinkling strains of We'll Meet Again on the piano. We could be in a Second World War dancehall - and many of the dancers may indeed believe momentarily that they are. The true setting is slightly less romantic - a music and drama workshop for people with dementia, whose participants have just been reminiscing about the war.
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Medicare Part D 2010 Data Spotlight: Prices for Brand-Name Drugs in the Coverage Gap
(Source: Kaiser Family Foundation) - This analysis finds prices for some commonly used brand-name drugs rising in 2010 for beneficiaries who reach the coverage gap (or "doughnut hole"), with increases since 2006 far exceeding the growth in inflation.
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Deciding on Care for Elderly Parents in Declining Health
(Source: New York Times) - Two years ago my father, then 83, became very ill. Until then, he had been living alone in a pleasant one-bedroom apartment on the Hudson River, an hour's drive from my home in Brooklyn.
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