April 22, 2011

New Cancer Treatments: Hype or Hope?

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If you are a man, you have a 1 in 6 chance of developing prostate cancer during your lifetime. The good news is that most men will die with ...
March 25, 2011

Priming the Pump

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More bad news about dementia in America was released recently by the Alzheimer’s Association in its report, “ Alzheimer’s Facts and Figures ...
February 28, 2011

Aging in Black and White

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“Never Say Die: The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age,” a new book by Susan Jacoby, is a tour de force. If you can get beyond the strid...
January 02, 2011

New Wine from NAPA?

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In a rare moment of bipartisanship, Congress unanimously approved the National Alzheimer’s Project Act. The media called it “historic legisl...
December 06, 2010

News of a Life in Review

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The father of modern geriatric medicine, Robert Butler, died last summer at the age of 83. His contributions to the study of aging and to th...
August 16, 2010

The Alzheimer's Revolution?

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First a seemingly arcane debate at a medical conference about the criteria for diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease made news; then an article in...
July 01, 2010

One Hundred Years of Alzheimer's Disease

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One hundred years ago, the eminent German physician, Emil Kraepelin, published the eighth edition of his very successful textbook on psychia...
May 26, 2010

Say It Isn't So

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My very first post on "Perspectives on Aging" dealt with dementia. I reported on a study that found exercise could decrease the ri...
April 13, 2010

It’s the Law

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After all the rancor and the political posturing and the delays, we finally have major health reform legislation. The new law will resul...
March 29, 2010

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