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Dorian Martin

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posted 08/08/2008, comments (0)

Put Your Best Foot Forward in Fighting Alzheimer's By Joining A Memory Walk Near You

It's beginning to be that time of year again - the fall is the chance to lace up your walking shoes and take a step in the right direction to stop Alzheimer's. The Alzheimer's Association's Memory Walk® is the nation's largest event to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer care, support and research - and it calls on volunteers of all ages... Read more Chevron

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Carol Bradley Bursack

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posted 08/06/2008, comments (2)

Taking Alzheimer’s Drugs is Showing Promise of a Longer Life

While it's well known that the drugs available now for people with Alzheimer's disease, namely donepezil (Aricept), rivastigmine (Exelon), galantamine (Razadyne), and memantine (Namenda), don't cure the disease, they do help slow the decline and even put off behavioral changes, for many people. Now, a study published on... Read more Chevron

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Bob DeMarco

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posted 08/05/2008, comments (0)

FAQs about TauRx Therapeutics and rember™

There is a lot of buzz right now about rember. People want to know more about rember, how it works, and when it might become available. "New research findings point to a new treatment that appears to slow the progress of Alzheimer's by 81% over a year. The product - remberTM - is the first drug to act to arrest the progression of... Read more Chevron

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Richard Taylor

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posted 08/05/2008, comments (0)

Now I know why I didn't go!

Results that I have read, and reports that I have received from people who attended the semi annual world international conference (and fund raiser) on Alzheimer's Research confirmed for me I can still make sound decisions based on my own thoughts and feelings. Good news for me; sad, confusing, and misleading news for all of us who live in... Read more Chevron

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Dorian Martin

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posted 08/04/2008, comments (0)

Take Time to Write A Diary (or a Sharepost) About Caregiving Can Be Beneficial

Graduate school teaches you a bunch of 75-cent words that sound impressive. One of the words that I learned through my program is "metacognition." This high-falutin' word means, according to Merriam-Webster, "awareness or analysis of one's own learning or thinking processes." The reason that I bring this word up is that I just was reading... Read more Chevron

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