Preventive Medicine

New International Alzheimer's Disease Research Network To Be Led By WUSTL (Medical News Today)

24 Jul 2008

The Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC) at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis will lead a six-year, $16 million international research collaboration dedicated to understanding inherited forms of Alzheimer's disease. The National Institute on Aging (NIA) will fund the project.

Doctor prescribes plain talk when it comes to medicine (The Celina Record)

24 Jul 2008

Prosper resident Scott Wise has written a book to help explain medical language and terminology so the average person can better understand doctors’ diagnoses and orders.

Docs say prevention is the best sunburn medicine (Journal Gazette & Times-Courier)

24 Jul 2008

Time spent in the sun is not always fun. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 40 percent of Americans age 18 and older had at least one sunburn in 2004.