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#AlzheimersChat

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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.

Read all about it HERE

10 drugmakers work together to write alzheimer history

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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 crime

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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? There’s an app for that

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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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Alzheimer friendly towns

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A wonderful initiative that we cannot support enough. The ACT on Alzheimer collaborative has many partners and supporters and tries to get towns and businesses friendly and adapted to accommodate people with Dementia and Alzheimer.

A Minnesota initiative, the list as their goals:

five goals:

  • Identify and invest in promising approaches that reduce costs and improve care.

  • Increase detection of Alzheimer’s disease and improve ongoing care and support.

  • Sustain caregivers by offering them information, resources and in-person support.

  • Equip communities to be “dementia capable” to support residents who are touched by Alzheimer’s disease.

  • Raise awareness and reduce stigma by engaging communities.

 

Read all about it HERE