Tag Archives: dementia

Jose Belardo of Lansing, Kan., spent most of his career in the U.S. Public Health Service. He worked on the front lines of disasters in ...

By H.G. McKinnis In my early twenties, I lived with a hoarder I’ll call Mae. When I moved in, I saw she had loads of stuff, and I knew instantly ...

Many people drink diet soda to avoid the excessive calories found in the regular stuff.  Turns out, both regular and diet soda may be linked ...

When doctors told Robert Madison his wife had dementia, they didn’t explain very much. His successful career as an architect hardly prepared him for what ...

TUESDAY, July 21, 2015 — Women with mild thinking and memory problems — known as mild cognitive impairment — deteriorate twice as fast mentally as ...

(HealthDay News) — Few physicians would find euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (EAS) conceivable for patients with psychiatric disease, dementia, or those who are “tired of ...

MONDAY, Jan. 26, 2015 (HealthDay News) — Long-term and/or high-dose use of a class of medications used for hay fever, depression and other ills has ...

More than 1.5 million patients received hospice care last year.  But palliative care providers are concerned that one-third of those patients died within seven days ...

By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, Oct. 31, 2014 (HealthDay News) — Malfunction of a key brain protein called tau is the likely culprit behind Alzheimer’s ...

By Brad Broker Middle aged, neurotic, easily stressed women are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease later in life, according to a new study published ...