Alzheimer’s disease affects more Americans than breast cancer, prostate cancer and HIV/AIDS, yet research on the disease receives significantly less funding.
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Alzheimer’s Research Funding Down
Alzheimer’s disease affects 26,000 individuals in the Richmond area alone, and a new person is diagnosed with the disease every 69 seconds.
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Modern Aging: Help for Alzheimer’s caregivers
PORTSMOUTH — While Alzheimer’s disease affects more than 5 million Americans and is the nation’s seventh-leading cause of death, experts say several misconceptions still exist.
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Caring for those with Alzheimer’s disease
Scientists discover that a known risk gene for Alzheimer’s disease affects the brain in healthy young people – decades before the disease develops.
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Alzheimer’s risk ‘seen in young’
In the most comprehensive study to date, neurologists have clearly identified significant differences in the ways that Alzheimer’s disease affects patients with and without the apolipoprotein E e4 gene, a known genetic risk factor for the neurodegenerative disease, using a combination of cognitive and neuroanatomic measures. The study found that ... continue reading