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• Dyana wrote a new blog post: Do I have the answer for you!   11 hours, 54 minutes ago · View

  I have been on the quest for “the answer” to my health challenge since the onset of symptoms in early 2005. The past 5 1/2 years have been devoted to reading, investigating, talking, exploring, deep introspection, and more reading. Add to that a plethora of visits with natural “healers.” The amount of information I have [...]

• Margaret wrote a new blog post: Packing and chocolate éclairs…   1 day, 5 hours ago · View

  Well, yesterday I did not manage to finish editing the draft that I have been working on, and my parents and I are leaving Florence in just a few hours, so this will have to be brief. Especially since I am typing on Stefano’s laptop (I am taking it with me), and I still have to [...]

• Alzheimers Disease wrote a new blog post: Scientists identify protein that spurs formation of Alzheimer’s plaques   1 day, 20 hours ago · View

  In Alzheimer’s disease, the problem is amyloid-β, a protein that accumulates in the brain and causes nerve cells to weaken and die. Drugs designed to eliminate plaques made of amyloid-β have a fatal problem: they need to enter the brain and remove the plaques without attacking healthy brain cells. A new breakthrough from the laboratory [...]

• yolanda peters wrote a new blog post: vitamins and health   2 days, 11 hours ago · View

  Are there any true All Natural Vitamin?  Do we really need vitamins or are they doing us more harm than good

• Alzheimers Disease wrote a new blog post: Getting the right care   2 days, 17 hours ago · View

  I’ve been taking care of my mom for a few months now.  She has a diagnosis of AD, and her neurologist says it’s pretty advanced.  I’m not satisfied with the care she’s getting, so I’ve contacted a major medical school with a great reputation and am going to have her seen there. She was living [...]

• Margaret wrote a new blog post: An irrational fear of flying…   3 days ago · View

  My parents and I are leaving Florence on Monday…that is, day after tomorrow. Destination: Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. I have a question: why is it that natural disasters or plane crashes always take place on the eve of my departure? Always. I mean, it’s almost uncanny… This time, it’s Hurricane Earl. I have been tracking its course…Luckily, it [...]

• Margaret wrote a new blog post: A haha Garfield cartoon…   4 days, 18 hours ago · View

  This morning I received a very cute cartoon from a blogging friend (thanks!) who told me that she had thought of me as soon as she had clapped eyes on it. It reminded her of the recent post I wrote on the refined fructose and pancreatic cancer cell study… Incidentally, that study has given me a new pet peeve: high fructose corn syrup…and, really, any [...]

• Alzheimers Disease wrote a new blog post: Quicker decline in more cognitively active?   5 days, 6 hours ago · View

  Wow.  I just read an article about a study done at Rush University in Chicago.  The study indicates that people who have more active minds stave off the devastating effects of Alzheimer’s Disease longer than their dull counterparts. They appear to have a quicker decline, too.
  

  “The person who has had a more mentally stimulating lifestyle [...]

• cakassel55 wrote a new blog post: Let the Death Panels Commence   1 week ago · View

  A few weeks back I’d read about the drug Avastin, something about its approval maybe being pulled back. It’s a very expensive drug prescribed as a last-ditch effort for breast cancer patients. It’s not a cure, but it provides an extension of life and quality of life in the hope (that America has no shortage of), [...]

• Margaret wrote a new blog post: Still MGUS…after more than 30 years…   1 week, 1 day ago · View

  When, in early 2006, I told my best friend that I had progressed from benign MGUS to the, er, less benign condition of SMM, or smoldering myeloma, she didn’t look shocked or tell me she was sorry or burst into tears (all of which I deeply appreciated!). It’s not that she didn’t care, of course. She [...]