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Alzheimer's disease was first identified in 1906 by German Physician Alois Alzheimer. His patient, a 51-year-old woman, suffered loss of memory, disorientation and later, severe dementia. After her death, Alzheimer conducted an autopsy on her brain and found the two distinctive characteristics of the disease: tangled clumps of nerve fibers and patches of disintegrated nerve-cell branches. Because Alzheimer's patient was relatively young, AD was at first considered a disease of middle age; similar symptoms in elderly people were simply regarded as a natural consequence of aging. Today this view has been discarded. Even...
Little real progress has been made in the treatment of AD since Alzheimer's day, and even diagnosis remains difficult. The only way to be absolutely certain that a patient has the disorder is to examine the brain after death. Thus, the diagnosis must be approximated by a careful process of elimination. Through CAT scanning and other tests, the physician gradually determines that the patient has not suffered a series of small strokes, does not have Parkinson's disease, a brain tumor, depression, an adverse drug reaction or any other possible cause of dementia. If all tests...
...travel from Paris to Marseilles, would you fly or take the train! If the response send you scurrying to Charles De Gaulie Airport. The Return of Martin Guerre is probably not for you. But anyone patient enough to appreciate the subtle pleasures of a train ride through the French countryside featuring glimpses of lush panoramas and cameos of sleepy towns should enjoy this film, whose chief virtue is its sense of place...
...cure is in sight. But the research already has benefited some patients. New knowledge about the immune system has inspired doctors to be more careful when treating Kaposi's to use therapies that do not lead to further suppression of the immune system. Fauci of NIH has conducted a bone marrow transplant that bolsters a patient's immune system. Along with many other researchers, he is testing the effects on AIDS patients of new forms of interferon, a component of the human immune system that can now be reproduced by genetic engineering...
...history. The original version was published in a collection of stories two years ago. Carver might have let it languish there; instead he chose to rework the material, enriching and enlivening it in the process. For years, obituaries have been written for the American short story; Carver's patient craftsmanship shows how vital the genre remains...