Alzheimer; News from the web:
More than 50 people from all over South Carolina gathered Tuesday at the State House to raise awareness and ask for more funding for people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and for those who care for them.
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Alzheimer; News from the web:
Thursday February 13th 2014 will be the day for a Twitter chat by health rankings producer Kimberly Leonard and hosted by David Shenk, author of “The Forgetting: Alzheimer’s Portrait of an Epidemic” and senior adviser to the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund; Dan Browning, creator of the NextAvenue Blog “Under 60 and Living With Dementia” and health reporter for the Star Tribune in Minnesota; Gary Small, author of “The Alzheimer’s Prevention Program” and director of theUCLA Longevity Center; Jeanne Walker, English professor at the University of Delaware and author of “The Geography of Memory: A Pilgrimage through Alzheimer’s;” Michelle Seitzer, freelance elder care writer; and New York Times Magazine staff writer Alex Witchel, author of “All Gone: A Memoir of My Mother’s Dementia, With Refreshments.” To join the conversation, simply follow the hashtag #AlzheimersChat.
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Alzheimer; News from the web:
Researchers and drug companies are joining forces to examine similarities among some of our worst ailments. NIH Director Francis Collins talks with Diane about a new era of collaboration to find treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other diseases.
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Alzheimer; News from the web:
Pfizer Inc., Eli Lilly & Co. and eight other large drug makers will partner with the U.S. government in a $230-million effort to identify new approaches to treat Alzheimer’s, diabetes, lupus and arthritis.
Data generated from the work will be made public for other scientists to use, a move the U.S. National Institutes of Health called groundbreaking. The targeted diseases are some of the most prevalent conditions among Americans, costing the nation billions of dollars in treatment and lost productivity.
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Alzheimer; News from the web:
Alzheimer is big business. If you think about the millions of people who suffer from this disease and then think about how much they would spend on drugs that effectively keep the disease at bay or even cure the problem. There are in this world always people out to get rich by unfair practices and here is the story of a scientist who was allegedly used in a plot to get insider knowledge about the success of a drug development.
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Alzheimer; News from the web:
Pfizer is working on a project, together with a software development company, to develop a game that could eventually be used as a clinical tool to determine early signs of Alzheimer’s or other neurodegenerative diseases.
Pfizer will do a clinical trial to see if it detects Alzheimer symptoms in an early stage
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