Tag: Alzheimer’s disease
A HIGH-STAKES VENTURE: Slater startup fund has placed bets on 140...
Rhode Island’s old industrial base had already been decimated by the mid-1990s when state leaders scrambled to find ways to reinvent and revive the...
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America to hold free educational conference in Providence
PROVIDENCE – The Alzheimer’s Foundation of America will host a free educational conference next month open to anyone impacted by Alzheimer’s disease or interested in brain health.
The local...
Early detection is vital to saving lives, reducing health costs
The New England Council recently hosted a forum in Boston exploring some of the incredible innovations in our region focused on the early detection...
Brown researchers testing HIV drug for anti-aging traits
More than 90% of adults over 65 have at least one chronic condition and about 80% have two or more, according to the Centers...
Could the state’s life science effort stall at the finish line?
Gov. Daniel J. McKee recently celebrated the $81.7 million opening of the new Ocean State Labs in Providence’s Jewelry District. The labs are a...
Providence research company seeking participants for Alzheimer’s study
EAST PROVIDENCE – A national research institution’s Rhode Island location is calling for volunteers with Alzheimer’s disease to participate in a study attempting to...
URI researchers build low-cost device to reveal hidden damage from brain...
Traumatic brain injuries are far more common than many realize. Globally, more than 65 million people suffer such trauma each year, University of Rhode...
Alzheimer’s Association Rhode Island adds 3 board members
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association added three members to its board of directors, the association recently announced.
The first is...
Five Questions With: Dr. Edward Huey
World Alzheimer’s Day was Sept. 21, and it comes as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the second treatment available to slow...
Licenses revoked from nursing assistant convicted of stealing from patients
WEST WARWICK – A nursing assistant who was convicted of stealing from memory loss patients at the Spring Villa Memory Care Assisted Living Facility...
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