<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Alzheimer's Disease</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/health/conditioncenter/alzheimers?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</link><description>Alzheimer's Disease</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Another Painkiller Linked to Heart Risk]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14596-2004Dec20.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14596-2004Dec20.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:04:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[NIH researchers uncovered the potential problem with naproxen, an Aleve ingredient, last Friday during a quick review of data from a large, ongoing Alzheimer's disease study.]]></description><author> Rick Weiss</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medicare Will Pay for Alzheimer's Brain Scan]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27275-2004Sep16.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27275-2004Sep16.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:04:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In the absence of strong evidence that the scans can tell whether a person has Alzheimer's, agency limits the coverage to some patients.]]></description><author> Rick Weiss and David Brown</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Dark Path Ahead]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37290-2004Jun12.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37290-2004Jun12.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:04:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The slow death of Ronald Reagan gave Ralph Minker and his wife a too-clear picture of the road they are heading down.]]></description><author> Jacqueline L. Salmon</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Into the Darkness of the Mind]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28639-2003Dec2.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28639-2003Dec2.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:04:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In a year of steady progress against Alzheimer's, the biggest concrete development was the FDA's approval of memantine in October.]]></description><author> Anne Underwood</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[FDA Approves Alzheimer's Drug]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41297-2003Oct17.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41297-2003Oct17.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:04:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The first medicine effective against symptoms of moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease could be on the market by January.]]></description><author> Shankar Vedantam</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study Links Weight and Alzheimer's]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56186-2003Jul14.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56186-2003Jul14.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:04:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Overweight elderly women are more likely than those who stay trim to be stricken by Alzheimer's disease presenting the first evidence linking the burgeoning weight crisis with the increasingly common brain affliction.]]></description><author> Rob Stein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study: Mind Games May Trump Alzheimer's]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10893-2003Jun18.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10893-2003Jun18.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:04:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Seniors who regularly engaged in pastimes that stretched their minds lowered their risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and other dementias by as much as 75 percent.]]></description><author> Shankar Vedantam</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dropped Alzheimer's Drug Reversed Disease]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23387-2003May21.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23387-2003May21.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:04:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[An experimental vaccine for Alzheimer's disease has halted and even reversed the brain disease in some who got the shots, according to the first follow-up study of those patients.]]></description><author> Rick Weiss</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drug Shows Promise in Treating Alzheimer's]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15034-2003Apr2.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15034-2003Apr2.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:04:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The new medicine called memantine has become the first to slow the progression of the disease among severely ill patients, and it may even reverse some mental losses.]]></description><author> Shankar Vedantam</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Struggling to Avoid Alzheimer's Legacy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50900-2003Feb22.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50900-2003Feb22.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:04:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Her mother and husband went first, their memories fading slowly like sheets of paper left in the sun. So, to avoid their fate, Kathy Featherstone drills herself with numbers.]]></description><author> Fredrick Kunkle</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[TIPS ON PREVENTING AND PREPARING FOR WANDERING BEHAVIOR]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29654-2003Feb19.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29654-2003Feb19.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:04:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Camouflage doors by painting them the color of the walls.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[With Police Help, a Safe Return]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29653-2003Feb19.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29653-2003Feb19.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:04:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The elderly woman had been missing for nearly six hours, and Alexandria Police Capt. Cleveland Spruill knew that time was running out. When people with Alzheimer's disease wander off, as they often do, their chances of survival diminish sharply if they are not found within 24 hours.]]></description><author> Patricia Davis</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Body's First Defense May  Be Root of Diseases]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13755-2003Feb15.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13755-2003Feb15.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:04:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Medical researchers are becoming convinced that the body's first defense against infection may play a role in some of the most devastating afflictions of modern humans.]]></description><author> Rob Stein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gene Variation May Affect Memory]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35223-2003Jan23.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35223-2003Jan23.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:04:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[People who inherit one version of a key gene score better on certain memory tests than people who inherit a slightly different version, researchers reported Thursday.]]></description><author> Rick Weiss</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clinical Trials for Alzheimer's]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55877-2002Dec14.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55877-2002Dec14.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:04:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Alzheimer's Family Study is one of many clinical research trials on Alzheimer's disease being conducted under the auspices of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), other federal health agencies and private sponsors.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Uncertain Inheritance]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55873-2002Dec14.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55873-2002Dec14.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:04:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Enrolled in the same alzheimer's study as her late father, she hopes for a better outcome.]]></description><author> Barbara Geehan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reagan's Condition Said to Be Worsening]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3820-2002Aug10.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3820-2002Aug10.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:04:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Former president Ronald Reagan, 91, is steadily slipping in his terminal battle with Alzheimer's disease, according to close friends and former associates.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illness Presents Heston With Toughest Role]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A734-2002Aug9.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A734-2002Aug9.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:04:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Actor Charlton Heston disclosed Friday that he has symptoms consistent with the early stages of Alzheimer's disease.]]></description><author> Paul Farhi</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creator of Dear Abby Has Alzheimer's]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52784-2002Aug6.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52784-2002Aug6.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:04:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Pauline Phillips, the creator of the Dear Abby advice column, has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, family members revealed.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where to  Get Help]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9681-2002Jul15.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9681-2002Jul15.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/alzheimers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:04:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[My family found these resources valuable after our father developed dementia.]]></description><author></author></item></channel></rss>