Chocolate and Vascular Dementia
The benefits of cocoa's flavanol phytonutrients is an important idea. When you leave out the sugar and fat, natural cocoa powder can be considered a health food that improves arterial function. That's a great...
Causes of Scoliosis
Causes of Scoliosis.
What is Scoliosis. What are its causes, how it diagnosed.
Scoliosis is a medical condition in which a person's spine has a sideways curve. The curve is usually "S"- or "C"-shaped. In some,...
Women #ENDALZ: Rachel Whitmer, Ph.D., Kaiser Permanente Division of Research
Women #ENDALZ is a series that profiles the amazing brains fighting to create a world without Alzheimer's disease. In this video, meet Alzheimer's researcher Rachel Whitmer, Ph.D. Celebrate your amazing brain today at alz.org/mybrain!
Reason to Hope
Our Delaware Valley chapter Reason to Hope event. The Reason to Hope event is a powerful one-hour luncheon designed to educate the community about the Alzheimer's Association while raising funds to support Alzheimer's...
See a Stroke & Act on Time
Vascular dementia often results from a stroke. Build awareness about the signs of stroke and the need to call 911 to receive immediate medical treatment. The video includes information on stroke symptoms, treatment, and...
Types of Pneumonia – Pneumonia Facts
pneumonia is an infection in the lungs that can be caused by a variety of different pathogens, including viruses, bacteria, fungi, and mycobacteria. Some people thought that there are 2 types of pneumonia but...
Celebrity Champions 2017 – My Alzheimer's Story Part 2
Alzheimer's Association Celebrity Champions, including Laurie Hernandez, Selenis Leyva and Victor Garber, share their personal connections to the disease in honor of Alzheimer's & Brain Awareness Month.
FOX 29 Good Day Philadelphia – New Report Shows Shocking Numbers on Alzheimer
A newly released report shows that the number of Alzheimer's-related deaths have doubled in 14 years. alz.org/FACTS
3 Ways Not to Get Alzheimer's in an ICU
Newswise — Patients treated in intensive care units across the globe are entering their medical care with no evidence of cognitive impairment but oftentimes leaving with deficits similar to those seen in patients with...
Knee Pain: Home Remedies for Fast Relief of Joint Pain
Knee Pain: Home Remedies for Fast Relief of Joint Pain.
You can take care of your knee pain with some simple and easy home remedies. These remedies are most helpful for mild to moderate pain...
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Take it from the rats: A junk food diet can cause long-term damage to...
A new USC-led study on rats that feasted on a high-fat, sugary diet raises the possibility that a junk food-filled diet in teens may...
Repurposing non-pharmacological interventions for Alzheimer’s disease through link prediction on biomedical literature
The complete workflow is depicted in Fig. 1. To investigate the association between NPIs and AD, we initially conducted preprocessing and integration of biomedical triples...
Degenerative Dementias and Their Medical Care in the Movies
Compared with other neurologic problems, few films have been dedicated to degenerative dementia. To our knowledge, this is the first systematic review about the...