Category: Alzheimer’s Disease
Weekend Reading: Best of the web on health online this week
How do you live knowing you might have an Alzheimer’s gene? Applying lessons from Africa to tackle AIDS in D.C. Taking pills to boost your grades. Caring for farmworkers.
U.S. launches plan to prevent Alzheimer’s and improve care
The Obama administration is moving forward with an ambitious agenda to improve the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and unlock a method to prevent it by 2025. The plan also sets up a wide-ranging effort to improve the care that Alzheimer’s patients receive and support families.
Weekend Reading: Santorum’s flip on health reform, malpractice and EHRs, talking about AIDS and sex
Santorum once wanted more government involvement in health care, not less. Electronic health records and medical malpractice. Making the best of old age. Talking about AIDS and sex.
Weekend Reading: Interesting online health articles
Sarah Palin on special needs. When doctors treat their family members. The neurology of ethics. Not all memory loss is Alzheimer’s. And the politics of the Komen-Planned Parenthood controversy.
Tips for buying long-term care insurance
Don’t buy if the out-of-pocket cost for the coverage would be more than you can afford. Policies differ greatly so know what you are buying. Shop around.
Health stories in the news
Battle over hospital beds in southeast King County. Researchers share data to find new Alzheimer’s treatments. A family’s struggle with Sanfilippo syndrome.
Health stories in the news
Community services for vets with PTSD. Spinal fluid test predicts Alzheimer’s disease. Hospitals and nursing homes found to be shortchanging staff on overtime pay.
Health in the news
Did the U.S. overreact to the H1N1 swine flu? Health experts interviewed by Washington Post reporter Rob Stein say they are generally pleased with the response of state and federal health agencies to early reports out of Mexico of a new flu virus that was killing an alarming number of young, healthy adults. “If what [...]
Ginkgo Biloba fails to prevent dementia and Alzheimer’s disease
Gingko biloba, a popular herbal preparation used to prevent or treat memory problems, failed to prevent the onset of dementia or Alzheimer’s diseases in a large study of older men and women. The study appears in today’s issue of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association Gingko biloba is one of the most popular [...]
JAMA Report: Gingko fails to prevent dementia
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