Archive for March, 2010

Hispanic and African American Communities more at risk of Alzheimer's

Mar 30, 2010 1 Comment by lgiuffre

According to MSNBC a person is newly diagnosed with Alzheimers every 70 seconds. While currently there are 5.3 million Americans suffering from the disease, in the year 2030 it is projected to be 7.7 million. Hypertension incidence among the African American population is said to be responsible for those individuals having twice as many cases [...]

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Promising Research for Autism Treatment

Mar 29, 2010 No Comments

Cellceutix Corporation (OTCBB: CTIX), a bio-pharmaceutical company has announced promising research results of a compound they believe will be used to treat autism. The focus is to find a compound that would act upon brain plasticity, serotonin levels and behavioral function as these are considered the criterion that must be affected to treat autism.   The [...]

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From Dog Collars to Pill Caps To Tracking Our Loved Ones

Mar 29, 2010 1 Comment

First it was e-readers and Netbooks. Now AT&T wants to connect dog collars and pill caps to its wireless network. AT&T’s Glenn Lurie, who heads up the company’s emerging devices business, sees a world in which any device can be connected over AT&T’s wireless network. The business is just beginning, but at the end of [...]

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Dementia Patients to be tracked by GPS satellite

Mar 23, 2010 1 Comment

Dementia patients will be tracked by GPS devices whenever they leave their homes under a new scheme to rescue them when they get lost, The Times has learned.  The device is to be fitted into the jewelry or clothing of elderly patients, whose movements will be monitored by satellite.   They will have access to a [...]

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Health-care Reform Bill Passes with approval from the Autism Society

Mar 22, 2010 No Comments

The US House of Representatives passed the Senate version of health-care reform. “The Autism Society is pleased that Congress took a step in the right direction late last night” said Lee Grossman, President and CEO of the Autism Society, “but we have much more work to do to ensure that families affected by autism have [...]

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Medical Journal retracts study on Vaccinations Causing Autism

Mar 22, 2010 No Comments

Over the span of the past few years multiple cases have been filed alleging that the MMR vaccine in combination with thimerosal caused their children to develop Autism.  Almost repeatedly the courts rule against the plaintiffs, ruling no link between vaccine and the development of autism.  Two such cases have come back favorably for the [...]

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3 Year old missing child found almost a mile from her home

Mar 20, 2010 No Comments

When we think of missing children normally we imagine someone kidnapping them. The fact is though, that many of these children unknowingly wander off. This is the case of 3 year old Victoria Bensch from Prescott, Arizona. On Feb. 22nd little Victoria was playing outside in her yard with her dog. Sometime that afternoon she [...]

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April 2nd is World Autism Awareness Day….

Mar 20, 2010 No Comments

The American Autism Society has been recognizing the month of April as National Autism Awareness month. Since the 1970′s it has done so in efforts to educate, and fundraise to subsidize research. It also spurs the medical community and elected officials into action to recognize autism as the epidemic that it is. We must be [...]

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Interesting Alzheimer facts and personal location devices

Mar 18, 2010 No Comments

Currently there are over 5,000,000 people in the USA diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. That number will triple by 2050. Well over 50% of these people wander and become lost. A lost person with Alzheimer’s or other dementia represents a critical emergency. In most cases nearly half of them will die and many can become injured or [...]

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Cardiologists looking to personal GPS devices for solutions….

Mar 17, 2010 No Comments

According U.S. National Library of Medicine National Institute of Health, cardiologists can now get off the proverbial treadmill.  For many years now physicians have used the ‘Stress’ test, which entails the patient walking on a treadmill, for the evaluation of Peripheral Arterial Disease (P.A.D.) and other related issues. Now physicians, say researchers, can instead utilize [...]

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