Alzheimer's Disease: As National Plan Emerges, Families Beg For Better Diagnosis, Treatment

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September 12, 2011

reporting on health, alzheimer's diseaseAlzheimer's: As Obama administration officials prepare a national plan to address Alzheimer's disease, families are demanding earlier diagnosis, better treatments and help with caregiving, Lauran Neergaard reports for the Associated Press.

Dental Health: Cutbacks in dental care for California's Medicaid recipients are alarming some of the state's dentists, who say their Medicaid patients are delaying dental care until their teeth literally are rotting, Anna Gorman reports for the Los Angeles Times.  

Food Safety: Following Cargill's August recall of 36 million pounds of ground turkey over salmonella concerns, the poultry giant again is recalling another 185,000 pounds after a ground turkey sample was found to be contaminated with the same salmonella strain, Hugo Martin reports for the Los Angeles Times.

E-Health: Watson, the IBM supercomputer that won Jeopardy, has been "hired" by health insurer WellPoint to diagnose patients' diseases, Anna Wilde Mathews reports for The Wall St. Journal.

Mental Health: Treating depression with "transcranial magnetic stimulation" is increasingly popular despite lack of insurance coverage for the procedure and skimpy evidence that it works in the long term, Marion Davis reports for the Boston Globe.

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