Charity backs dementia tagging
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A key dementia charity backs the electronic tagging of sufferers to stop them wandering too far from home.
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LONDON  - In an effort to find new ways to prevent breast cancer, two British cancer organizations called for the help of 100,000 volunteers to participate in a lifelong breast cancer study.
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Scientists have identified a group  of proteins that together indicate a person has Alzheimer's  disease in what may be a big step toward an accurate test for  the devastating brain ailment.
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According to researchers at Boston university brightly colored cups, plates spur food, beverage consumption in patients suffering from Alzheimer&#39;s disease.
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Researchers from two London hospitals will take part in a massive international study of Alzheimer&#39;s disease starting next spring.
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Patients are not 'boxes of bandages': NO2ID The NHS has proposed making patients wear bar code bracelets or RFID tags as a way of saving hospital time and money, but identity card opponents have said that the measure means treating patients "like boxes of bandages".â¦
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A wearable digital camera may hold the key to helping people who have memory problems, experts believe.
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How to prevent a sticky gunk from clogging up, and probably killing, the brain cells of Alzheimer&#39;s patients is the newest focus in the fight against the disease.
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The US government health insurance plan for the elderly and disabled will pay for doctors to run PET brain scans to diagnose Alzheimer&#39;s disease, US officials said on Thursday.
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The U.S. government health insurance  plan for the elderly and disabled will pay for doctors to run  PET brain scans to diagnose Alzheimer's disease, U.S. officials  said on Thursday.
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The family who abandoned an 82-year-old man suffering from Alzheimer&#39;s disease in a hospital waiting room have made contact from Spain with the social services department caring for the man.
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A high-tech system is being tested in London to help families of dementia sufferers trace their loved-ones if they happen to wander off.
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More than 1,500 elderly people have died over the winters from 2000, the charity Help the Aged says.
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Elderly patients who show signs of Alzheimer&#39;s will be able to get brain scans under the government&#39;s Medicare program, US officials said on Thursday, a step which could lead to earlier diagnosis and treatment.
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Colourful veteran jazz singer George Melly is one of the growing numbers of people in the UK with dementia, his wife has revealed.
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A new study plans to use volunteers from Orkney to help battle Scotland's top three killer diseases.
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Scientists say a simple smell test may be able to help doctors identify certain people at risk for developing Alzheimer&#39;s disease.