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An August 2015 Univision Chicago Spanish language broadcast segmenthighlighted LatinosAgainstAlzheimer’s coalition member the Latino Alzheimer’s Alliance and its work to combat Alzheimer’s in Chicago's Latino community.

MUST READS

An August 20, 2015 Meridian Star article reported that Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss) highlighted his commitment to fighting Alzheimer’s at the 16th Annual Conference on Alzheimer's Disease and Psychiatric Disorders in Older Adults at the MSU Riley Center in Meridian. According to Senator Wicker, “We need to put the best brains in the world together to find a cure. If we can even find a delay in the onset of Alzheimer's, think of what it would mean to society. Think of what it would mean to the Medicare and Medicaid budget.”

An August 18, 2015 Lincoln Journal Star article reported “The University of Nebraska Medical Center will participate in a $10 million study testing a new model of care for Alzheimer’s and dementia patients, and the people who care for them.” 

RESEARCH, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY 

An August 19, 2015 CBS News article reported that “An international team led by Johns Hopkins University researchers found there is a part of the hippocampus dedicated to creating and processing this type of memory.” According to the article, “The work, published Wednesday in the journal Neuron, could help researchers better understand how the mind works and better understand diseases like Alzheimer’s.”

An August 19, 2015 Fortune article reported that “Intel and the Oregon Health & Science University have created a cloud-computing platform tailored for cancer research.” According to the article, “Eventually, Intel and OHSU hope to expand the cloud platform to handle other types of medical research like Alzheimer’s and heart disease.”