- Though she can still hit a mean backhand, Ruth Becker
is in the advanced stages of Alzheimer's disease with limited ability to
perform every day tasks.
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- For her, treatment options are limited. She takes a drug
widely prescribed for Alzheimer's called Aracept. According to her physician,
Dr. Norman Relkin of the Weill Cornell Medical Center, the drug has slowed
her mental demise.
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- Relkin realizes the treatment is not an answer for her
illness but he says, "just being able to buy some time...being able
to restore some semblance of stability to the lives of people suffering
from this disease...I think it's a tremendous contribution."
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- But Sue and Don Miller are interested in more than buying
time. Don was diagnosed with Alzheimer's at 55. "Previous to Alzheimer's
I had a very sharp mind. I had a high IQ which basically sort of took a
large dive," he says.
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- Miller built a career as a financial manager only to
find that he could no longer make change or pay bills. The doctor's diagnosis
was a shock.
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- "I remember going to the second visit and he looked
at us and said, 'have you two considered Alzheimer's?' And I think you
could have picked us up off the floor. No - cancer, anything - but that
was not on the list," says Sue Miller. _____
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- What CBS didn't say is that:
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- *Senile dementia/Alzheimer's type (SDAT) is the most
common cause of intellectual decline with aging.
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- *The incidence is approximately 9 out of 10,000 people.
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- *This disorder affects women slightly more often than
men and occurs primarily in older individuals.
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- *Approximately 4 million Americans have AD.
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- *Nineteen million Americans say they have a family member
with AD, and 37 million know someone with AD.
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- *14 million Americans will have AD by the middle of the
next century unless a cure or prevention is found.
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- *Alzheimer's disease is the fourth leading cause of death
among adults.
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- *One in 10 persons over 65 and nearly half of those over
85 have AD and it is increasingly found in people in their 40s and 50s.
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- *A person with AD can live from three to 20 years or
more from the onset of symptoms.
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- Go to: http://gtigerclaw.bigstep.com see feature article
and click on banner "Dead Rats Don't Talk"
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- From George Glasser
gtigerclaw@worldnet.att.net
http://www.gtigerclaw.bigstep.com 12-23-00
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- Thought that I would let you know that I have been getting
some very interesting people hitting Dead Rats and also the Alzheimer's
article that Andreas Schuld wrote.
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- Scott Masten from NTP Nominations was there twice, and
he also hit Seeds of Cancer three times. Among the others were Henkel
Corp (Americas), Mayo Clinic, University of Berkley, John Hopkins, Carnegie
Institute, CBS News, EPA, and The Canadian Gov.--and --Alberta and Ontario
Gov. Several international Alzheimer's organizations have been on numerous
times. The ADA has hit all over my site.
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- Numerous US city governments have been hitting the Alzheimer's
site including Los Angles, and Sacramento, CA. There has also been hits
on the Alzheimer's sites from some very interesting Corporate sites such
as Ford Motor Company, a text book research organization, etc., and hits
I traced back to elite international corporate servers that have some
pretty heavy-hitting international corporate clients. I generally trace
the more obscure hits back to the source if possible.
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- What amazed me is that all the action about Alzheimer's
happened within a week and the caliber of the hits--not the general AOL,
or Mindspring client, for the most part!! I think that the Alzheimer's
issue and the fact that EPA nominated the aluminum/fluoride issue for
NTP research is something that should be pushed -- If they were not worried
about the results of the Varner studies, they never would have nominated
the aluminum/fluoride issue to NTP. After reading more, I realized how
damming the studies were especially when they were duplicated three times.
I had interviewed Dr. Robert Isaacson after the second Varner study in
1995, and he suggested that there were some very serious problems--he
also said that they had wanted to do work with iron and fluoride in relationship
to neurological and cardiac problems.
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