KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — Three days before William "Bill" Anderson was set to marry his high school sweetheart in the summer of 1960, he lined up at the starting line of a race in Missoula. This wasn't just any race — Anderson, who had just wrapped up a college track career, was lined up ...
NEW YORK — Call them zombie cells — they refuse to die. As they build up in your body, studies suggest, they promote aging and the conditions that come with it like osteoporosis and Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers are studying drugs that can kill zombie cells and possibly treat the ...
LANSING — Energy experts say Michigan can make its energy infrastructure more reliable against the effects of climate change by increasing the state’s energy storage capabilities and improving technologies that detect power outages. Extreme weather events such as large storms are ...
ATLANTA — Every day Arthena Caston prays for more time. More time to get to know her grandchildren and for them to know their “Iya.” More time to share many Christmases with her family. In March 2016, Caston, who lives in Macon, was diagnosed at 51 with early-onset Alzheimer’s ...
MARQUETTE — Roughly a quarter of surgical patients in Michigan smoked cigarettes at the time of their operations, according to a study from the University of Michigan. A study of 328,578 patients having general and vascular surgery from 2012 to 2019 found that 24.1% were active smokers, ...
MARQUETTE — More than 6 million Americans are currently living with Alzheimer’s disease, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. That number is expected to more than double to 13 million by 2050. As defined by the Alzheimer’s Association, Alzheimer’s is a type of dementia that ...