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Alzheimer’s Society makes giving fun

If you don’t personally know somebody who is suffering from Alzheimers, you cannot fully appreciate how debilitating a disease it really is. How someone can look the same as ever but is slowly rescinding to a dark place inside their mind where they live oblivious to the outside world and even those around them. It [...]

Alzheimer’s may be detected 10 years in advance

An inexpensive and simple blood test that can identify the presence of the Alzheimer’s gene as much as ten years before the symptoms show is being worked on by British scientists.  If the dementia research is fruitful it could help doctors treat the disease and slow its progression with prescription drugs.

The test will hopefully be [...]