Gene May Help Predict Timing of Alzheimer's Onset - Yahoo! News

Alzheimer's sucks! When a friend or loved one has it, it is devastating. Its affects and course are unpredictable. I don't wish this desease on anybody. It robs you of loved ones and they slowly die before their time and bodies. Visit an Alzheimer's clinic sometime. The desease is no joking matter, it's cruel.

Ok, another plank on the road to prevention/cure. That's good, and should be in the scientific reviews. But still, it's a little like being told the time of your death. Not many of us would want that. Successful research on what we can do to maximize our personal defenses against it are actually more newsworthy, I think.

The important thing is to keep searching for answers. It's a little like following the prey back to its beginnings. If you can find what it looks like soon enough, maybe they can find the magic bullet that will stop it before it starts. This is very good news for anyone who has had a family member diagnosed with this scourge.

When will that genetic test be available? Hurry up and make it available. This is a horrible disease.

Glad to know there is a light at the of the tunnel. My husband's mother and her sister developed Alzhiemer's and passed away. It was devastating for the entire family to see them become debilitated. When I was growing up in the Philippines, I never really witness anyone with this illness.. Somehow I notice a number of my friends have relatives with Alzheimer as well. Is it more rampant in America...just wondering because I hear it all the time. I hope researcher will find the way to prevent the disease,,just like those in place for heart diseases.

Is it called the Pelosi Gene?

discovering indicators is interesting, it's a piece of the puzzle; finding inhibitor players will be equally noteworthy, the amyloid plaque has an interesting molecular skeletal structure, layers of the plaque intertwine in a zipper like fashion, to date the condition, undefensible

If I had this gene, I wouldn't want to know.

It's about time we had some good news... Follow this up with the cure!

JL Mealer
Mealer Companies LLC

Alzheimer's is a disease that in many ways is as devastating to the caregivers and family members as it is the effected individual. For the patient, a means of slowly checking out from reality. For the family, increased burdens and witnessing this painful deterioration in function. Don't count on screening being available if this administration's health care agenda gets passed. The only way to decrease costs will be to ration care. Wouldn't want that happening to anyone who could benefit and live a much more fulfilled life.

interesting isn't it..they have mapped the genome and never found a 'gay' gene...kind of throws their whole theory off doesn't it?

You know...I think Alzheimers is related to grief as well. I think some of this is because of the 'progress' that destroys 'ancient landmarks'. Just my two cents, but there are numerous references in scripture to not destroying the '\ancient landmarks'. I think a small part of each person looks for those familiar things when they get older that hold them in a way that they held them when they were young,,whether a tree, a bush, woods, river, old homes. I think perhaps if folks would bring to their loved ones a branch or leaves brick or somehting from a tree they no longer are able to visit or see, it might alleviate some of the alienation old folks feel as they age. Just my two cents.

think you have a good point blue, a great example is all the grieving right wing religious dullards that post here are demented, delusional and clueless

I just hope in the brave new world we are heading for, having this gene is not an excuse for the government to terminate you to reduce social security and medicare costs.

I belong to different health sites and receive a lot of updates from them. Their latest updates are recommending that you not get the flu shots. They see a big increase in alzheimers in comparison to the flu shots that are given in this country. Research is being done on this and it does bear looking into.

My Dad had dementia before he died. I don't believe they ever officially called it alzheimer's, but it was very similar. Doctors at the VA said that they're seeing a large increase in diseases like these and the one thing they've noticed most have in common after years of observation of military members and their families is a heavy use of marijuana and alcohol in a persons lifetime especially when it starts in their younger years.

no money in a cure for anything. Cash is in the treatment. same with cancer. They dont want to cure it.

To bad religion stops us finding a cure.

It is about time, that thay found out something. My Dad passed of this horrible disease, and it wasn't easy watching him go down hill. He was always a very passive man, didn't like violence at all, and as this disease progressed he became more violent. He was finally diagnosed in late April of 1988, and quietly passed away in May of 1988. They knew nothing about this disease then, so there was nothing they could do. Thankfully he went to sleep and passed peacefully. It is so hard for a family to sit and watch their loved slowly slip away, not knowing who you are or who they are in the end. Those left behind never quite get over the feeling of helplessness.

According to the Republicans "Alzheimer", "Cancer", etc. is a hoax just like Global warming is. Doctors and Scientists should not be doing research on "Genes, Stem Cells, etc." because that would be playing against God's will.

Hey TAL how ya doin ?

If this is the next step to finding a cure then I'm extremely thankful we're one step closer. My grandfather had Alzheimers and it's such a cruel way to die. The pain it causes the person experiencing it and the family is excruciating. Keeping my fingers crossed that we find a cure in the next 10-15 years because I am NOT going out like that...

This is just another example of how valuable stem cell research could be in finding causes and subsequent cures for the horrible diseases that afflict the human species. I don't want to start a religious argument over this subject; I'm just saying that researchers need every tool they can get to eradicate disease.

In the UK many years ago there was talk about how Aluminum in food and food contact with it were significant.The alzheimers numbers went crazy after WWII so there might be a link ?.It is also interesting how low the rates are in India which is a dietrelated factor Turmeric being the clue.At least Now we may get religous dogma out of the way and find a cure for this and many other things.

Interesting...hmm..I wonder if Biden could be checked out. LOL