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Going from Alzheimer's researcher to patient

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Rae Lyn Burke was driving to work in Menlo Park when it happened - she realized she couldn't do math anymore. A career scientist who'd worked at many of the Bay Area's major biotech companies, Burke was used to doing...

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Urinary Tract Infections Hasten Memory Loss in Alzheimers Patients

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ALZHEIMERSreadAlzheimer's Reading Room is the number one source of life news for the entire Alzheimer's community. Our goal is to Educate, sometimes Entertain, and Empower Alzheimers caregivers and their families worldwide.


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Twitter can be an E-Patient's Best Resource | Healthline

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DiaGenic and GE Healthcare to Develop Blood-Based Test for Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), a Disorder Associated with Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease - Yahoo! Finance

finance.yahoo.com — “From Yahoo! Finance: DiaGenic ASA [OSL:DIAG] today announced a research agreement to collaborate with GE Healthcare to develop a blood-based test using DiaGenic’s peripheral gene expression profiling in patients with mild cognitive impairment, a disorder associated with risk for Alzheimer’s Disease.View full resource at finance.yahoo.com

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Many young cancer patients don't discuss fertility - Yahoo! News

news.yahoo.com — “From Yahoo! News: NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Young women with cancer often aren't counseled about the risk of losing their fertility due to treatment or their options for saving their eggs, a new study from California suggests. Researchers found that since the early 1990s, only one in every 25 women diagnosed with cancer at age 40 or younger decided to go through with egg- or embryo-freezing procedures, even though at least half said they'd like to have kids after treatment. "More times thView full resource at news.yahoo.com

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Computer program could help dementia patients manage their disease

news-medical.net — “Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have developed a computer program that has tracked the manner in which different forms of dementia spread within a human brain. They say their mathematic model can be used to predict where and approximately when an individual patient's brain will suffer from the spread, neuron to neuron, of "prion-like" toxic proteins -- a process they say underlies all forms of dementia.View full resource at news-medical.net

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ALZHEIMERSreadAlzheimer's Reading Room is the number one source of life news for the entire Alzheimer's community. Our goal is to Educate, sometimes Entertain, and Empower Alzheimers caregivers and their families worldwide.


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Anesthesiologists drive up cost of GI procedures - Yahoo! News

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Antioxidants may not help people with Alzheimer's - Yahoo! News

news.yahoo.com — “From Yahoo! News: NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Daily use of antioxidants including vitamin C and vitamin E didn't improve thinking and memory skills in people with Alzheimer's disease, in a new study. Researchers found that some patients taking antioxidants actually had faster declines in memory over the four-month study compared to those who were given vitamin-free placebo pills. Some reports have suggested that older adults who eat a diet rich in antioxidants may have a lower risk of getting AlView full resource at news.yahoo.com

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Antioxidants may not help people with Alzheimer's - Yahoo! News

news.yahoo.com — “From Yahoo! News: NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Daily use of antioxidants including vitamin C and vitamin E didn't improve thinking and memory skills in people with Alzheimer's disease, in a new study. Researchers found that some patients taking antioxidants actually had faster declines in memory over the four-month study compared to those who were given vitamin-free placebo pills. Some reports have suggested that older adults who eat a diet rich in antioxidants may have a lower risk of getting AlView full resource at news.yahoo.com

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Antioxidants May Not Help Alzheimer's Patients - Yahoo! News

news.yahoo.com — “From Yahoo! News: MONDAY, March 19 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have suggested that antioxidants might help thwart Alzheimer's disease, but a new study finds that a "cocktail" of vitamins E, vitamin C and alpha-lipoic acid has no effect on certain indicators of the brain disorder.View full resource at news.yahoo.com

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Detailed Gene Scan Might Help Guide Leukemia Treatment - Yahoo! News

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Researchers Studying New Treatment for Alzheimer's Disease | Rush

rush.edu — “Neurological experts from the Rush University Medical Center are studying a potential, new treatment for patients with dementia due to Alzheimers disease. Rush is the only site in the U.S. offering the clinical trial for a drug treatment called MSDC-0160.View full resource at rush.edu

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Social Media Strategy for the Healthcare Industry « Radian6 - Social media monitoring tools, social media engagement software and social CRM and marketing from the industry leader in social analytics.

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ER patients often misunderstand doctors’ discharge instructions, Canadian researchers conclude | Daily Brew - Yahoo! News

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Alzheimer's neurons induced from pluripotent stem cells

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Medical News: Cortical Thickness Linked to Risk of Dementia - in Neurology, Alzheimer's Disease from MedPage Today

medpagetoday.com — “Thinning of some regions of the brain's cortex -- as seen on MRI -- appears to be related to the risk of developing cognitive decline, researchers reported.View full resource at medpagetoday.com

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