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21-10-2008
INEVITABLE is the progressive deterioration in the health of an Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patient as the years pass by. The emotional and physical toll on both the afflicted person and their family caregivers are tremendous, especially when the patients do not recognise their nearest and dearest anymore - a condition referred to as agnosia.
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21-10-2008
DEALING with losses is an everyday affair in my life as sole caregiver to my mother who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 1998 at age 66. In the early days when mum lost her cooking skills, I removed her wok and gas stove from the kitchen.
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20-10-2008
Date: 20 to 22 October 2008
Venue: Prince Hotel & Residence Kuala Lumpur
Theme: Innovative Strategies In Psychiatry
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19-10-2008
A Good Walk - A Healthy Mind
Date: 19th October 2008
Time: 7.30am
Venue: Dataran Petaling Jaya, PJ
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15-10-2008
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has suspended a $9 million grant for a depression study led by a psychiatrist at Emory University in Atlanta. The punishment, imposed in August but only made public today, is apparently the most severe reaction by NIH so far to a Senate investigation of NIH-funded researchers who may have failed to report all of their income from drug companies.
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15-10-2008
When it comes to cigarettes, schizophrenics just can't seem to get enough. They're two to three times more likely to smoke than the general population, and patients have been known to puff through up to four packs a day.
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