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1463.  Oregonian, The (Portland, OR) - August 20, 1997 

PORTLANDER SHOWS GENE MIGHT TRIGGER ALZHEIMER'S  
  Summary: In an OHSU study, patients with a common immune-system gene show symptoms three years before those without it A new study shows a possible link between a common immune-system gene and the early onset of Alzheimer's disease in some people.In the study led by a Portland researcher, 207 Alzheimer's patients who had the HLA-A2 gene developed Alzheimer's disease about three years earlier than those who did not carry the gene. Some people who have...

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1463.  Capital Times, The (Madison, WI) - July 23, 1997 

NEW UNIT FOR ALZHEIMER'S CARE INCORPORATES SOME NICE TOUCHES  
  At Arcadia, a new Alzheimer's care wing at ManorCare Health Services, family pictures hang on the walls, special lighting minimizes the glare and the smell of baking bread fills the air.These special touches, which offer reminiscences of home, are found on the fourth floor of ManorCare, 801 Braxton Place. The 21-bed Arcadia Special Care Unit is the city's newest residential and medical care facility for individuals suffering with Alzheimer's disease and...

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1463.  Post-Tribune (IN) - March 12, 1997 

HOME FOR ALZHEIMER'S PATIENTS CLEARS FIRST HURDLE  
  A residential center devoted to Alzheimer's disease patients - the first in Northwest Indiana - has received the approval of town planners.The $1.5 million building would house 24 patients in a one-story unit to be constructed by the fall on Madison Street just south of 93rd Avenue. The project, proposed by the Hamstra Group, still must be approved by the City Council.Alzheimer's, which gradually destroys the memory and the ability to care for oneself, has...

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1463.  Birmingham News (AL) - December 23, 1996 

LEGAL MATTERS TO CONSIDER IN DEALING WITH ALZHEIMER'S  
  The medical diagnosis of probable Alzheimer's disease should send a family to other kinds of professionals. When we counsel a family who has a loved one who is receiving a diagnosis of Alzheimer's, we make the point that they need to address the issue of making legal and financial arrangements, said Dr. Daniel Marson, a University of Alabama at Birmingham clinical psychologist, who is an expert on legal competence of patients with dementia. What you're...

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1463.  The Gazette (Cedar Rapids-Iowa City) - December 14, 1996 

Alzheimer's studies explained in C.R.,  Expert: Hope offered by anti-inflammatory drugs and estrogen  
  Studies show that anti-inflammatory medicine and estrogen may help protect people against Alzheimer's disease, a nationally known Alzheimer's expert told Cedar Rapids area physicians Friday. Dr. Neill Graff-Radford, chairman of the neurology department and director of the Clinical Research Center at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., warned, however, that further studies are needed.Although researchers are learning more and more about the causes of...

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1463.  Bradenton Herald, The (FL) - November 27, 1996 

NEW DRUG FOR ALZHEIMER'S HAS FEWER SIDE EFFECTS  
  Alzheimer's patients are getting a second drug that fights the memory-robbing symptoms of the fatal brain disease - and may be taken by many more patients because it causes fewer side effects.The drug Aricept, created by Japan's Eisai Co., won Food and Drug Administration approval late Monday. Pfizer Inc., which will sell the drug here, said it will be on pharmacy shelves in several weeks. Aricept ``provides another choice'' for patients who...

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1463.  Detroit Free Press (MI) - March 21, 1996 

SCIENTISTS VIEW START OF BRAIN DISEASE SCANNING SHOWS ALZHEIMER'S GROWTH  
  BOSTON -- For the first time, brain images have captured the destruction of approaching Alzheimer's disease in people whose thinking and memory are still rich and vigorous.Combining brain scans with careful genetic screening, doctors can see bad spots inside the brain that are the all- but-certain early stages of the illness.This innovation means doctors may be able to diagnose Alzheimer's as much as a decade before it starts to steal its victims'...

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1463.  Daily News of Los Angeles (CA) - May 9, 1995 

REARRANGING THE PIECES OF ALZHEIMER'S PUZZLE  
  Alzheimer's disease is a puzzle, and scientists long have sought to treat it by trying to figure out which piece to blame.Now it appears that a better strategy is figuring out how to put several pieces together. Alzheimer's, first diagnosed in 1906 by the German doctor Alois Alzheimer, became a serious topic of research only in the 1950s as it became more clearly distinguished from other forms of dementia.Ultimately, it emerged as by far the most common and...

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1463.  Tulsa World - May 11, 1994 

St. Simeon Episcopal Home Offers New Care for Alzheimer's Patients  
  Amid the everyday confusion surrounding Alzheimer's patients, St. Simeon's Episcopal Home, high atop the Osage Hills in North Tulsa, offers a comforting antidote.Its view covers the rolling terrain of the Osage Hills forested with towering oak trees and a glimpse of downtown Tulsa.Foxes and deer are sometimes sighted on the compound's 50 acres. But the retirement community's beauty is only the icing on the cake for some of its...