Latest Health Articles for Neurology

• Fla. man gets deal in dementia-plagued dad's death

  article 2009-11-13  |  Author: Matt Sedensky
  A man charged with killing his Alzheimer's disease.Bobby Yurkanin, 53, of Fort Lauderdale, will ......

• Yes, she can: Obama's golfers a men's club no more

  article 2009-10-26  |  Author: Staff
  The White House scored a stroke for gender equality in sports on Sunday.President Barack Obama's chief domestic policy adviser, Melody Barnes, became the first woman to play in the president's golf foursome. She joined the president, Marvin Nicholson, the White House trip director, and Dr. Eric Whitaker, the ......

• INSIDE WASHINGTON: Obama moving slowly on judges

  article 2009-10-03  |  Author: Staff
  EDITOR'S NOTE — An occasional look at how Washington works — or doesn't.By LARRY MARGASAKAssociated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) — Eight months into office, President Barack Obama is moving far more slowly than his predecessor to fill federal court vacancies, leaving liberals waiting for the judiciary to tilt to the left.At ......

• Charges unlikely for helping suicide in England

  article 2009-09-24  |  Author: Raphael G. Satter
  England's top prosecutor unveiled new guidelines that could decriminalize many forms of assisted suicide, saying Wednesday that most people who help close friends or family kill themselves aren't likely to face charges.Keir Starmer, the director of public prosecutions, warned that there were no guarantees but said those who helped adults ......

• Report: 35 million-plus worldwide have dementia

  article 2009-09-21  |  Author: Lauran Neergaard
  More than 35 million people around the world are living with dementia, says the most in-depth attempt yet to assess the brain-destroying illness — and it's an ominous forecast as the population grays.The new count is about 10 percent higher ......

• Picture emerges of Yale suspect as controlling

  article 2009-09-18  |  Author: Ray Henry And Michael Hill
  As police charged a Yale animal lab technician with murdering a graduate student who worked in his building, a portrait began to emerge Thursday of an unpleasant stickler for the rules who often clashed with researchers and considered the mice cages his personal fiefdom.Police charged 24-year-old Raymond Clark III with ......

• Awards given for leukemia treatment, DNA advances

  article 2009-09-14  |  Author: Malcolm Ritter
  Five scientists have won prestigious research awards for developing a life-saving leukemia treatment and for advances in "reprogramming" DNA, which led to a new kind of stem cell.The $250,000 Lasker Awards will be presented Oct. 2 in New York by the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation. In addition, New York ......

• Garrison Keillor out of hospital after stroke

  article 2009-09-12  |  Author: Staff
  Humorist Garrison Keillor has been released from Mayo Clinic's Saint Marys Hospital after suffering a minor stroke earlier in the week.Keillor spokesman David O'Neill released a brief statement Friday night saying Keillor left the Rochester hospital earlier in the evening. O'Neill said Keillor was on his way back ......

• Obituaries in the news

  article 2009-09-05  |  Author: Staff
  Chris ConnorTOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — Chris Connor, a smoky-voiced jazz vocalist who had numerous hits during a career that spanned more than 50 years, has died. She was 81.Connor, who performed with several big bands and also had an extensive solo career, died of cancer Aug. 29 ......

• McCain speaks with angry crowd at Ariz. town hall

  article 2009-08-27  |  Author: Amanda Lee Myers
  Sen. John McCain met with an angry crowd at a town-hall meeting about health care reform Wednesday, sometimes having to fight to talk and telling one woman who wouldn't stop yelling that she had to leave.The Arizona senator hadn't yet opened up the meeting at McCain's central Phoenix church to ......