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Health Tips: Osteoarthritis

February 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Osteoarthritis or OA makes your joints hurt or free stiff after you rest and after activity. it usually affects the hands, low back, neck, hips and knees. OA can cause very bad pain, disability and ma lead to a need for surgery.

Tips:

  • If you are overweight , lose 5-10 lbs
  • Be active for at least 2-3 hours a week
  1. Walk, swim, or ride a bike
  2. Stretch your muscles and joints
  3. Exercise our joints

Questions to ask your doctor

  • What types of medicine are available to treat my OA?
  • How many times a day should I use my OA medicine?
  • How do I use my OA medicine
  • What are the side effects of OA medicine?
  • How long do I need to use my OA medicine?
  • If I forget to use my OA medicine, what should I do?
  • Can I use my medicine for m OA with my other medicines?
  • Are there any foods or drinks I should NOT have while using my OA medicine?
  • What other remedy can I use if my OA medicine is not working?

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Colombian cluster of early-onset Alzheimers may hold key to future cure

January 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Antioquia, Colombia (CNN) — It’s a cruel disease that strips away a person’s identity until they can no longer remember their loved ones or feed themselves. But normally, Alzheimer’s does not attack until old age.

For some, though, it strikes early — beginning its attack in their late 30′s. Now, one cluster of Early-onset Alzheimer sufferers in the mountains of Colombia could offer hope to families around the world.

For generations, the families in Antioquia have suffered with the disease, watching loved one after loved one deteriorate to death. Now they might be about to strike back.

Early-onset Alzheimer is a rare form of the disease but its brain lesions are identical to those in the late-onset form so the hope is that a treatment for one could carry over to the other.

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FDA may approve Alzheimer test for living patients

January 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
PET scan of a human brain with Alzheimer's disease
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One of the many frustrations of Alzheimer’s disease is the difficulty in pinpointing just who has it. According to published research, as many as one in five people told they have Alzheimer’s are mislabeled. A definitive diagnosis can  be made only after death, by an autopsy that reveals a distinctive buildup – known as amyloid plaques – in the patient’s brain. This week, however, the FDA will consider a new diagnostic test that may be able to identify those plaques through PET scans – a type of brain scan – on living patients.

In a small study run by Avid Radiopharmaceuticals and made public Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association , PET scans identified the telltale plaques in 97 % of patients who actually had them, as determined by a subsequent autopsy.

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