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Dementia Patients Twice as Likely to Get COVID-19, Study Finds
The study also suggests people with dementia are more likely to die from the disease.
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First Blood Test to Help Diagnose Alzheimer's Goes on Sale
A company has started selling the first blood test to help diagnose Alzheimer’s disease
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Scientists Get Closer to Blood Test for Alzheimer's Disease
New study results are boosting hopes that there soon may be a simple, reliable way to help family doctors diagnose the most common form of dementia
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Missing At-Risk Woman, 77, Reunited With Family
A woman who family members say suffers from undiagnosed dementia is now missing, the San Diego Police Department confirmed.
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Drug Can Curb Dementia's Delusions, Researchers Find
A drug that curbs delusions in Parkinson’s patients did the same for people with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia in a study that was stopped early because the benefit seemed clear.
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Will You Get Dementia? Many May Not Understand Their Risk
Many older American adults may inaccurately estimate their chances for developing dementia and do useless things to prevent it, new research suggests. Almost half of adults surveyed believed they were likely to develop dementia. The results suggest many didn’t understand the connection between physical health and brain health and how racial differences can affect dementia risk. Substantial numbers of people...
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New Standards Aim to Improve Surgery for the Oldest Patients
The 92-year-old had a painful tumor on his tongue, and major surgery was his best chance. Doctors called a timeout when he said he lived alone, in a rural farmhouse, and wanted to keep doing so. “It was ultimately not clear we could get him back there” after such a big operation, said Dr. Tom Robinson, chief of surgery at...
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New Clues on Why Women's Alzheimer's Risk Differs From Men's
New research gives some biological clues to why women may be more likely than men to develop Alzheimer’s disease and how this most common form of dementia varies by sex. At the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Los Angeles on Tuesday, scientists offered evidence that the disease may spread differently in the brains of women than in men. Other researchers...
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A Healthy Lifestyle May Offset Genetic Risk for Alzheimer's
A healthy lifestyle can cut your risk of developing Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia even if you have genes that raise your risk for these mind-destroying diseases, a large study has found.
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Jim Bouton, Former Pitcher, ‘Ball Four' Author, Dies at 80
Jim Bouton, the former New York Yankees pitcher who shocked and angered the conservative baseball world with the tell-all book “Ball Four,” has died. He was 80. Bouton’s family said he died Wednesday at the Great Barrington, Massachusetts, home he shared with wife Paula Kurman. He fought a brain disease linked to dementia and was in hospice care. Bouton also...
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NFL Concussion Fund Battles Retired Players' Lawyers Over Proposed Rule Change
The NFL concussion fund has paid out nearly $500 million in its first two years, but some players’ lawyers say there aren’t enough doctors in the approved network to evaluate dementia claims.
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County Program to Offer Relief for Caregivers of Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia Patients
A new county program is now offering relief to those caring for local residents with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.
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Alzheimer's Association Finds Few Seniors Are Getting Routine Memory Checkups
Few seniors get their thinking and memory abilities regularly tested during check-ups, according to a new report from the Alzheimer’s Association that raises questions about how best to find out if a problem is brewing. Medicare pays for an annual “wellness visit” that is supposed to include what’s called a cognitive assessment — a brief check for some early warning...
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Company Halts Infusions of Young People's Blood Plasma After FDA Warning
The Food and Drug Administration warned consumers on Tuesday that there’s no proof that blood plasma infusions from younger donors can treat diseases, prompting one company that charges thousands of dollars for the service to halt the treatments, NBC News reported. The company, Ambrosia, wrote in a statement on its website that it had “ceased patient treatments.” It has been...
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Motorcycle-riding Dog Spreads Valentine's Day Cheer to the Elderly
“Chopper” the Boston Terrier, who rides an electronic motorcycle with a leather jacket and goggles, visited patients with Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia in Chula Vista Wednesday.
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Motorcycle-riding Dog Spreads Valentine's Day Cheer to the Elderly
NBC 7’s Danielle Radin shows you the coolest dog in Chula Vista.
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Alzheimer's Response Team Brings New Approach to Emergencies
San Diego County officials hope to expand a pilot program operating in East County that trains first responders to help some of the tens of thousands of San Diegans with dementia.
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Olivia Hooker, One of the Last Survivors of the Tulsa Race Riots, Has Died at 103
Olivia Hooker, one of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race riots and among the first black women in the U.S. Coast Guard, has died. She was 103.
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In Rare Rebuke, Roberts Raps Trump for ‘Obama Judge' Comment
President Donald Trump and Chief Justice John Roberts clashed Wednesday in an extraordinary public dispute over the independence of America’s judiciary, with Roberts bluntly rebuking the president for denouncing a judge who rejected his migrant asylum policy as an “Obama judge.” There’s no such thing, Roberts declared in a strongly worded statement contradicting Trump and defending judicial independence. Never silent...
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Studies in Healthy Older People Aim to Prevent Alzheimer's
It may be too late to stop Alzheimer’s in people who already have some mental decline. But what if a treatment could target the very earliest brain changes while memory and thinking skills are still intact, in hope of preventing the disease? Two big studies are going all out to try. Clinics throughout the United States and some other countries...