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...Until the beginning of the 1990s, when the Soviet Union began to disintegrate, Grozny was one of the most livable places in the Caucasus. The climate was mild, the surrounding countryside spectacular, and fruit, grapes, wine and dairy products abundant. There was a cosmopolitan population of over half a million: Russians, Chechens, Armenians, Azeris, Jews and other peoples of the Caucasus. Now Grozny is more like a post-nuclear nightmare, a city systematically leveled by the Russian military campaign that propelled Vladimir Putin to the presidency a year ago, where gunfire and explosions are still so common that they blend...
...important step toward that goal. No, they didn't announce a new therapy that can stem the ravages of Alzheimer's disease. Instead, in a study that was published in the March issue of the Archives of Neurology, they provided compelling evidence that a condition called mild cognitive impairment, or MCI, which is characterized by repeated lapses in short-term memory, is in fact in many patients the earliest stage of Alzheimer's disease...
Should the Washington University findings hold up, they could eventually provide drug companies with another target for treating or even preventing Alzheimer's. Perhaps more immediately, however, the results could trigger all sorts of financial and legal headaches if, for example, insurance companies start labeling mild cognitive impairment as a pre-existing condition that disqualifies patients from long-term health-care coverage. This is apart from the emotional trauma of patients realizing that they probably have an incurable disorder...
...event, the research underscores the fact that as scientists increase their knowledge about the earliest manifestations of Alzheimer's disease, more questions are being raised than can be answered. For instance, what exactly do researchers mean when they talk about mild cognitive impairment? "There are lots of conditions that can be subsumed under the term," says Dr. John Morris, lead author of the study. MCI could stem from the side effects of taking too many medications, a blow to the head or the lassitudes of depression. But what Morris and others are focusing on is repeated problems with short-term...
...clinically significant impairment begins. The Food and Drug Administration invited a panel of experts to Washington last week to try to tackle the problem. The National Institutes of Health has scheduled another meeting in the fall to see if they can come up with a more rigorous definition of mild cognitive impairment...