SEATTLE: A father with cancer ended his life at the Swiss clinic Dignitas against the wishes of his family, despite admitting “I know I am going too early.”

Jeffrey Spector, who had a tumour on his spine but was not terminally ill, died at the Read More »

BOSTON: People who have had an infection that made them so sick they had to be hospitalised may have IQs that are slightly lower than average, a new study suggests,

Full story covered in the Dementia Business Weekly.

TULSA: New research suggests that cognitive impairment could predict worse outcomes such as readmission to hospital or death in older heart failure patients.

According to the authors of the study, heart failure patients with cognitive impairment had a risk of all-cause death and heart failure Read More »

PORTLAND: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced that it has developed reference materials that can be used by genetic laboratories to determine whether their equipment and computer software are correctly analyzing a person’s genome…

Full story covered in the Dementia Business Weekly