The Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation recognizes the impact that GAP-Net site Georgetown University Medical Center’s Memory Disorders Program has had on Alzheimer’s disease research. We congratulate them on their 20 years of dedication and service to the field. WASHINGTON (WJLA) — It’s estimated that one in 10 people 65 and over has Alzheimer’s disease. That’s nearly […]
The Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation is proud and honored to work with GAP Net site Butler Hospital Memory and Aging Program’s Dr. Stephen Salloway, who was named Rhode Island’s Man of the Year for 2019. It is the cruelest of diseases. It is the sixth leading cause of death in America. In the United States, […]
Al Sharpton delivered the keynote address for the Black Health Care Coalition, speaking out against the health care of black people and specifically Alzheimer’s. Turning his attention to the upcoming 2020 election, Sharpton says “All of the candidates running for President of the United States have health plans and should be focusing to eliminate the […]
USAgainstAlzheimer’s chairman and co-founder George Vradenburg discusses the emotional and economic toll Alzheimer’s has on society as a whole and criticizes that lack of urgency by our political leaders in their willingness to address this health crisis. “The cost of dementia to the world today exceeds 1 percent of total global economic activity. In the […]
The Brain Health and Memory Center in the Neurological Institute at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center honored its Alzheimer’s clinical trials participants at a Citizen Scientist Awards ceremony in May. The UH Cleveland Medical Center is currently looking for additional trial participants. Read more from Mike Peticca in the Cleveland Plain Dealer here. […]
Two Alzheimer’s research participants from GAP-Net site Roper St. Francis Research and Innovation Center in Charleston, SC were honored as Citizen Scientists. Read more about the nominees’ stories in Vital Signs. […]
The Advocate Memory Center at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, IL recognized its inaugural Citizen Scientist Awards nominees and their care partners at a special awards ceremony. Read more in the Chicago Daily Herald here. […]
GAP-Net site Okanagan Clinical Trials in Kelowna, BC recognized three of its Citizen Scientist Awards nominees in a ceremony at the Okanagan Innovation Centre in downtown Kelowna. Read more about the nominees in the Kelowna Daily Courier. […]
A podcast discussing Alzheimer’s disease – research, risk prevention, and other related topics. Robert Herriman is joined by Phil Sabel, M.A., the Clinical Research Coordinator at GAP-Net site Axiom Clinical Research in Tampa. Click here to listen. […]
While Alzheimer’s is better understood today than in the past, no effective treatments for the disease have yet been found. One major challenge facing Alzheimer’s drug trials is finding participants. As GAP President John Dwyer says, “The biggest problem is that people are not aware of clinical trials. The fact is, the first person to […]