focus -WSS

focus

author：leisure time 2025-09-30 12:18:42 - browse：9

Alzheimer’s disease has killed at least three women in Astrida Schaeffer’s family over two generations, leaving her feeling helpless and bereft.

The first was her Polish-born maternal grandmother, who began showing symptoms when Schaeffer started college in 1981 and died seven years later. Then came her mother, a onetime Fulbright Scholar and high school language teacher who had been fluent in five languages but lost the ability to speak. She died in 2019. Last year, the disease killed Schaeffer’s mother’s sister, a former lab technician for Johnson & Johnson.

Schaeffer, a 59-year-old costume historian in North Berwick, Maine, has no symptoms of Alzheimer’s. But in 2021 her family history led her to apply to join a clinical trial testing a drug on people at risk for developing them. To participate, volunteers couldn’t have cognitive impairment. But they needed to test positive for a biomarker that put them at higher risk for mental decline ― deposits of a sticky toxic protein in the brain called beta-amyloid that is a hallmark of the disease.

Get unlimited access to award-winning journalism and exclusive events.

Subscribe Log In

Previous article： Medicare details structure of new drug price negotiation program
Next article： Are infertility treatments 'essential' during the Covid

knowledge

WSS

How faith leaders like me can help address America's obesity epidemic

New report analyzes digital physical therapy solutions' effectiveness

Caribou posts encouraging results on off

5 dead in mass shooting on Caribbean island of St. Vincent: Police

'Golden Bachelor' Gerry Turner reveals what he wants in a partner and more

Jan. 6 charges against Trump would add to his mounting legal peril as he campaigns for 2024

knowledge

focus

Wikipedia

As demand for Covid shots wanes, Moderna seeks its next success

Teladoc has a new CEO, but challenges remain the same

After affirmative action ruling, medical educators look to 'holistic review'

How the BIOSECURE Act is already affecting U.S., Chinese life science firms

The high cost of giving birth even with insurance

US jobless claims fall again as labor market continues to flash strength

FDA approval of Sarepta Duchenne genetic therapy gives me hope

The system is set up to fail children with medical complexity

After affirmative action ruling, medical educators look to 'holistic review'

Judge denies Trump's request for new trial in E. Jean Carroll case

entertainment

Moderna says combo Covid

Eli Lilly to acquire DICE Therapeutics in $2.4 billion deal

A woman pleads guilty to fire that kept a Wyoming abortion clinic from opening for a year

A woman pleads guilty to fire that kept a Wyoming abortion clinic from opening for a year

Stanford president’s abrupt resignation sparks debate

Moderna says combo Covid

entertainment

knowledge

leisure time

leisure time