Dec 21, 2013 | 2013, Internal Communications
It is a devastating neurological disease that takes the body hostage and then methodically destroys it while the mind stays painfully alert. Lou Gehrig’s disease is still incurable and largely untreatable, but a stream of recent scientific breakthroughs in genetics,...
Aug 17, 2013 | 2013, Featured, National
New Retinal Imaging Test for Alzheimer’s One day when she was 76 years old, Rosa Rodrigo took a wrong turn out of a shopping center parking lot and found she had no idea where to turn next. “It was a little scary because I didn’t remember where I...
Jul 1, 2013 | 2013, National
It is time to stop thinking of stroke as a disease only of the elderly. A study found that people in the 20 to 54 age range accounted for 18.6% of first strokes in a recent 12-month period—a 5.7% rise in little more than a decade—and average age at stroke occurrence...