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Folic acid has also recently been linked to the prevention of colon cancer, heart disease and dementia in both men and women. A deficiency in folate can lead to severe anemia...
...bill's Republican backers have pointed to several recent cases of abuse. For example, the highly publicized case of Dr. Robert Weirtzel, a Utah man who was convicted earlier this month for administering overdoses of morphine without familial consent which resulted in the deaths of five patients with senile dementia. But although steps need to be taken to prevent these horror stories from happening in the future, this bill would do much more harm than good...
...stars give their roles a dizzy spin. Dorff's Cecil sports a manic gleam that could be dementia or star quality (if there's a difference), and Griffith is aces as the Hollywood harridan; when she sees her super-stretch limo, in white, she snarls, "Do I look like a coke dealer?" Maybe Waters is ironizing his anger at the movie brats who have stolen his attitude but don't understand his spirit. If so, the master is giving the kids a lesson here. Cecil B. proves how a dose of smart bad taste can be jolly good...
...deal, but if you've committed crimes against humanity, don't expect them to keep their end of the bargain once you've lost your power. In other words, tyrants planning on retirement are well advised to take some acting classes and work on doing a believable senile dementia...
Diagnosis can be tricky. Psychological tests go only so far because patients showing signs of dementia are often uncommunicative; failure to remember or fully answer questions can be as easily caused by severe depression as by full-fledged dementia. Doctors typically conduct a battery of tests, which can include blood counts, chest X rays and tests of thyroid function. Later this year the American Academy of Neurology will issue a new set of guidelines that emphasizes the importance of taking cat scans or magnetic resonance images of the brain. These are particularly good at revealing structural problems caused by ministrokes...