March 29, 2007

Alzheimer's Toll Reaches 5 Million

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A new report released by the Alzheimer’s Association brings some bad news: an estimated 5.1 million Americans currently have Alzheimer’s dis...
March 06, 2007

Recent Interview

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An interview from Ruth Dempsey at Aging Horizons: Ruth Dempsey: In The Denial of Aging , you argue: "Despite my vitamin and exercise r...
January 24, 2007

In the Grey Zone

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When I went to medical school, the condition “mild cognitive impairment” had not been recognized. Patients either had dementia (which was of...
November 07, 2006

Alzheimer’s Centennial

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On November 6, 1906, Alois Alzheimer presented a paper to his medical colleagues describing a patient, Auguste D, who had a progressive, ult...
September 18, 2006

A Time to Be Born, A Time to Die

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On September 6, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the use of the artificial heart. The AbioCor heart, the device that was appr...
July 12, 2006

Dutch Treat

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The Framingham Study is probably the most famous long-term medical study ever designed. Founded in 1948 to identify risk factors for heart d...
June 28, 2006

Thinking About Long-Term Care Insurance

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I’ve always dreaded when people ask me whether they should buy long term care insurance. They assume that as a physician specializing in the...
May 31, 2006

Washington Post Review

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The following review appeared in the Washington Post on Sunday. It's perhaps a bit overstated, but positive nonetheless. In The Denial o...
May 23, 2006

When More is Less

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Last week, Dartmouth ’s Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences released the latest version of its “atlas” of medical care in the U.S. ...
May 03, 2006

Aricept Redux

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Three months ago I wrote a column arguing that in the U.S. we over-use donepezil (Aricept), a drug widely touted as helpful in early Alzheim...