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Source: Reuters * Alzheimer’s drug helped brain function * Finding adds larger potential market for drug * (Adds details) By JoAnne Allen WASHINGTON, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Dimebon, a pill being developed for …

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Alzheimer’s drug Dimebon helps Huntington’s - study (AlertNet)

The benefits of marijuana in tempering or reversing the effects of Alzheimer’s disease have been challenged in a new study by researchers at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute.The findings, published in the current issue of the journal Current Alzheimer Research, could lower expectations about the benefits of medical marijuana in combating various …

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Marijuana Ineffective Alzheimer’s Treatment (redOrbit)

The benefits of marijuana in tempering or reversing the effects of Alzheimer’s disease have been challenged in a new study.

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Marijuana ineffective as an Alzheimer’s treatment (Science Daily)

Football can be a brutally violent game.

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NFL’s disturbing Alzheimer’s study no surprise to CFL players (Toronto Star)

St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 186 East Commerce St., Bridgeton, is having a Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper on Tuesday, Feb. 16, from 4:30 to 7 p.m

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Cumberland County briefs - Pancake supper, Woman’s Club events, Alzheimer’s support (Bridgeton News)

Elliott Starman , partner at Ribotsky, Levine & Co. CPAs in North Miami, joined the board of the Alzheimer’s Association Southeast Florida chapter, in West Palm Beach.

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Career move: Starman joins Alzheimer board (Sun-Sentinel)

Q: My father has Alzheimer’s disease. Should I be tested for the APOE 4 allele? I would like to know what I’m facing

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Alzheimer’s gene testing not needed (The Scranton Times-Tribune)

The Alzheimer’s Association, Southwest Missouri Chapter, will host its monthly Family Matters seminar, focusing on the topic “Strategies for Relationships,” 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Thursday at the Alzheimer’s Association, 1500 S. Glenstone.

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Alzheimer’s group to meet Thursday (The Springfield News-Leader)

The Alzheimer’s Association, Southwest Missouri Chapter, will host its monthly Family Matters seminar, focusing on the topic “Strategies for Relationships,” 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Thursday at the Alzheimer’s Association, 1500 S

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Alzheimer’s group to meet Thursday (The Springfield News-Leader)

( University of British Columbia ) The benefits of marijuana in tempering or reversing the effects of Alzheimer’s disease have been challenged in a new study by researchers at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute.

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Marijuana ineffective as an Alzheimer’s treatment: UBC-Vancouver Coastal Health research (EurekAlert!)

Imagine your spouse not only forgets you, but finds new love with someone else.

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Loving someone with Alzheimer’s - Till death do us part (WOAI San Antonio)

Roughly five million Americans live with Alzheimer’s disease, but John Thorndike, an Ohio University professor, and Gary Reiswig, an East Hampton, N.Y., novelist and inn owner, take us far into the dark with a pair of wonderfully woeful new books.

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‘The Thousand Mile Stare’ and ‘The Last of His Mind’ bring paternal Alzheimer’s disease into focus (The Cleveland Plain Dealer)

A birthday celebration for everyone, even if it’s not their birthday.

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Birthday Bash to Raise Alzheimer’s Awareness (WSAZ NewsChannel 3 West Virginia)

A Jenison painter chose not to ignore a confused man he met at a gas station.

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Missing Columbus man with Alzheimer’s finds lucky break in West Michigan (The Grand Rapids Press)

Pearl Cannon was instrumental in creating the first communitywide caregivers’ support group formed through the Alzheimer’s Association of Southeastern Wisconsin to serve African-Americans who suffer from the illness at a disproportionate rate.

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Support group helps deal with Alzheimer’s (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

TIFTON — Residents here will be among the hundreds of Alzheimer’s advocates from across the state headed to the Georgia Capitol on Monday for Alzheimer’s Awareness Day.

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Citizens fighting Alzheimer’s (Tifton Gazette)

THOMASVILLE — More than 200 Alzheimer’s advocates will be donning purple T-shirts and arriving at the capitol Monday to thank Gov. Sonny Perdue and the Georgia Healthcare Facility Regulation Division of the Department of Community Health for rewriting the Personal Care Home Regulations.

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NEW Area residents to attend Alzheimer’s event (Thomasville Times-Enterprise)

Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputies are trying to locate a missing Alzheimers patient from Lake Worth.

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PBSO search for missing Alzheimer’s patient (WPTV West Palm Beach)

Staff and board members of the Alzheimer Society of Belleville-Hastings- Quinte are still awestruck by the generous community support for our Walk for Memories on Jan. 31. The total now stands at $40,000 — a 45 per cent increase over last year.

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Thanks for your generosity to assist Alzheimer Society (Belleville Intelligencer)

The Manulife Walk for Memories, Ottawa’s premier indoor fundraising walk held on January 31st inside Carleton University Fieldhouse at the conclusion of January’s Alzheimer Awareness Month, raised a record amount of over $148,000 to benefit the work of the Alzheimer Society of Ottawa and Renfrew

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Record amount raised for Alzheimer Society (Pembroke Daily Observer)