Today's Headline: New recommendations for Alzheimer's diagnosis

1. WebMd alerts readers there is help on the way for doctors who may be stumped on how to diagnose Alzheimer's. In their article New-recommendations on Alzheimer's Diagnosis Kathleen Doheny reported on a conference in Honolulu, (July 13, 2010) where International scientists gathered to share research findings and to make suggestions on how to present new criteria in diagnosing this dreaded brain disease.

2. Exercise and Alzheimer's: Working Out May Cut Dementia Risk in Half

A new site has been launched whose purpose is to keep track all that is learned and being thought about Alzheimer's. From this site headlines concerning the latest breakthroughs in diagnosis and findings in studies are posted. News from around the world concerning this disease will be posted. The above headline is from their listing of the latest news concerning Alzheimer's.

If it is true, as it is alleged to be, that exercise plays an enormous role in denying Alzheimer's or maybe only delaying it, then that is good news indeed. And I am sure that includes mental exercise as well as physical exercise. Work those puzzles, play those mind games, read that newspaper, keep up with what is going on in the world and give your brain plenty ways to keeps its delicate machinery working.

3. A new Alzheimer's website is launched. While the website is rather skimpy at this point, it is designed to cover all that is known and hoped for where Alzheimer research is concerned. This article was written for Helium after discovering the new web site. I was chasing after information about the conference since I was writing about it, when I discovered this new site that I intend to bookmark so that I can refer to it time and time again.


4. Alzheimer's disease myths and facts . This was written a year or so ago in an attempt to get at some of the wrong information that was believed about the disease. We have come a long way, but are no ways near knowing enough. One of the things I mentioned in this article is that no one dies form Alzheimer's. Once that was the thought. Since it took so long to die when one had Alzheimer's it was assumed that some other disease had to take over and make one ill enough to die. Not true at all. Alzheimer's is a progressive disease that takes years before the body is completely robbed of what resembles life.

5. Alzheimer's and dementia: Is there a link
In trying to distinguish between one brain disorder and another is not easy. Most brain diseases that affect the reasoning, thinking, and functioning ability of a person, are thought of as being dementia. Alzheimer's falls into this category, but there are differences that sets the disease apart.

6. New findings on the diagnosis of Alzheimer's This is a current update, from my take on what is going on at the international conference going on in Honolulu as this is now being written. Check it out to see what their agenda and how you can get involved in the studies and become a more informed person concerning the disease.