Information and opinions on health from Richard Taylor at HealthCentral.com. HealthCentral.com is one of the top health destinations on the Web, with more than 35 condition-specific, wellness and general health Web properties. http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/3880/index http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/3880/rss self application/xml en-us 15 120 19 http://www.healthcentral.com/images/hc_logo_sm.gif http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/3880/index http://www.healthcentral.com/alzheimers/c/3880/36150/didn Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:42:45 -0400 Richard Taylor 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 cogitative decline. The eternal optimists, the career researchers, the public relations specialists (all of... http://www.healthcentral.com/alzheimers/c/3880/36150/didn http://www.healthcentral.com/alzheimers/c/3880/24581/long-good-bye Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:50:00 -0400 Richard Taylor It is always startling to me when someone I know, even if only through some make believe roles in make believe movies, dies and has been prior to her/his death living with a diagnosis of Dementia , probably of this or that type.   Someone found the press release Mr. Heston read announcing his diagnosis, and I just read it.  Reading Charleton Heston's announcement that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease reconfirms... http://www.healthcentral.com/alzheimers/c/3880/24581/long-good-bye http://www.healthcentral.com/alzheimers/c/3880/24525/real-stand Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:30:00 -0400 Richard Taylor Is Alzheimer’s Disease Real? And more importantly to me and to 5,000,000 + other people like me,  will a yes or a no or a maybe answer change my life for the better?   Last week I was speaking in Ohio and someone told me the authors of “The Myth of Alzheimer’s” were also speaking nearby at another conference. I secured a ride over to their conference and heard them and then WOW!   We sat down and... http://www.healthcentral.com/alzheimers/c/3880/24525/real-stand http://www.healthcentral.com/alzheimers/c/3880/21565/ive-lost-brain Sat, 15 Mar 2008 05:08:00 -0400 Richard Taylor     If I lost a limb (through an accident, or disease) I know even as it was being removed professionals would begin to marshal their skills to support and enable me to compensate for the lost limb. I would probably be fitted with an artificial one. Perhaps technology would be added to make the limb more functional for me. There would be therapy sessions to help me learn to use the new limb. The goal would be to restore my lost... http://www.healthcentral.com/alzheimers/c/3880/21565/ive-lost-brain