NEWS
June 16, 2013 | DAN GERINGER
HIS FATHER stood 6-4, weighed 250 and was respected throughout his West Philadelphia neighborhood as a strong man, so Raymond Holman Jr. was startled when his dad phoned to say that a female stranger had come into his home and robbed him. "My father's friends called him 'Big Ray' and his friends were big guys," Holman said. "Everybody in the neighborhood knew daddy. I mean everybody. So it was really a shock that someone would have the nerve to come into daddy's house like that and steal from him. " But that shock back in 1997 was mild compared to what would follow.
NEWS
February 21, 1996 | By Susan FitzGerald, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Sixty years ago when two young women studying to be nuns were about to take their final vows, they were required to write an autobiography. "Sister A" wrote: "I was born in Eau Claire, Wis., on May 24, 1913 and was baptized in St. James Church. " "Sister B" wrote: "The happiest day of my life so far was my First Communion Day which was in June nineteen hundred and twenty when I was but eight years of age, and four years later in the same month I was confirmed by Bishop D.D. McGavick.
NEWS
February 27, 2002 | Daily News wire services
An experimental drug that works to calm brain activity could help patients with moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease just as they lose the ability to care for themselves, researchers said yesterday. The drug, Memantine, slows over-excited brain cell signaling and, in doing so, it slows the progression of the disease, which gradually robs patients of their ability to remember, to find their way around, and to care for themselves, researchers told the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry in Orlando.
NEWS
October 18, 1990 | By Judy DeHaven, Special to The Inquirer
Caring for an Alzheimer's patient completely changes every phase of your life, according to area residents who have relatives suffering from the disease. "I've had to learn to do a lot of things. I have to do everything. My husband is at the point now where he needs help all of the time," said Marilyn Falls, 66, whose 67-year-old husband, Bob, was diagnosed as having Alzheimer's four years ago. The sessions last month at the Devon Manor Retirement Home and those taking place weekly this month at the Squire Adult Day Care in Newtown Square focus on the major problems caregivers face when a family member is diagnosed with the disease.
NEWS
June 23, 2011 | Associated Press
NEW YORK - Country-music luminary Glen Campbell has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and plans to put out his final album this summer. Campbell's representative Bobbie Gale made the announcement yesterday. He said the disease was in its early stages. The 75-year-old's wife, Kim, also talked with People magazine and said she and her husband wanted to go public with Campbell's illness so fans would know the reason if he manifests any trouble onstage. Campbell's CD "Ghost on the Canvas" is scheduled for release Aug. 30. He also is set to go on the road on what was already titled "The Glen Campbell Goodbye Tour.
NEWS
May 27, 2007 | By Will Hobson FOR THE INQUIRER
There are more than 5 million Americans living with Alzheimer's disease. Years from now that number could be smaller, thanks to the work of a high-achieving senior at Conestoga High School. Felix Zhang, 17, of Berwyn, was selected by USA Today as one of 20 members of its All-USA High School Academic Team. Zhang has devoted a large chunk of his free time over the last year and a half to interning at Thomas Jefferson Hospital, assisting in research on Alzheimer's disease. He won an award from the American Academy of Neurology for his research and presented his findings at its awards luncheon in Boston on May 2. Zhang will attend Harvard University in the fall and plans to study international affairs and pre-medicine.
LIVING
October 18, 1988 | By Valerie Reitman, Inquirer Staff Writer
I'm just waiting to get the OK from one doctor. . . . I want to have the doctor say, "Yes, I feel it's worth the chance. Yes, I'll prescribe it. " - Marlyn Weisberg, daughter of Alzheimer's disease patient Mae Weil About five years ago, the family began to notice strange changes in Mae Weil. When her grandson got married, she showed up wearing a dress definitely not suitable for the grandmother of the groom - especially one who had always dressed fashionably for special events.
NEWS
January 4, 2013 | By Tirdad Derakhshani, Inquirer Staff Writer
Bobby Womack has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer tells BBC music program host Gilles Peterson . "The doctor said, 'You have signs of Alzheimer's,' " Womack, 68, says. "He said it's not bad yet but it's going to get worse. " He adds, "How can I not remember songs that I wrote? That's frustrating. " Womack last summer made a big comeback with the critically acclaimed The Bravest Man in the Universe , his first studio album in nearly 20 years.
SPORTS
July 22, 2004 | Daily News Wire Services
Eddie Robinson, college football's winningest coach, has Alzheimer's, his wife said. "He's pretty bad," Doris Robinson said yesterday. "He gets a little bit worse every day. He comes to the table for breakfast, but after that he wants to go right to bed. " During his 57 years at Grambling, a career which spanned 11 presidents, several wars and the civil-rights movement, Robinson compiled a record of 408-165-15. His teams had only nine losing seasons and won 16 conference titles and nine national black college championships.
NEWS
December 19, 2012 | By Stacey Burling, Inquirer Staff Writer
The patient turned 40 over the summer and was already having symptoms that made her neurologist wonder whether she had Alzheimer's disease, the deadly, mind-killing dementia that usually attacks far older people. She and her husband went to the Adler Institute for Advanced Imaging in Jenkintown on a recent morning after 70 tests over the last year failed to explain her worsening symptoms. She was going to try yet another: a newly approved test developed by a Philadelphia biotech firm.