Editorial Cartoons
Editorial Cartoons
U.S. Supreme Court Stays Execution of Dementia Victim
Jan 25, 2018 The justices act only hours before a lethal injection was to be given to Vernon Madison, who, his lawyers argue, is unable to remember killing a police officer three decades ago.
Study: Pollution Leads to Thousands of Premature Births Each Year
Apr 11, 2016 Air pollution contributes to 16,000 preterm births annually and costs the country billions of dollars in medical costs and lost productivity, the first study of the phenomenon suggests.
A Third of Those Born in the U.K. in 2015 Will Develop Dementia, Study Predicts
Sep 21, 2015 The charity Alzheimer’s Research UK is warning of a national health crisis, predicting that one in three people born in the country this year will develop dementia.
Modern Life Is Making Dementia in Your 40s More Probable
Aug 14, 2015 Bournemouth University health and social science professor Colin Pritchard urges governments to act on research showing more and more people are getting dementia in middle age.
The Logbooks
Oct 4, 2014 Journalist Anne Farrow has written a profoundly personal reflection on historical memory, based on her discovery of Atlantic slave trade logbooks, and on her mother’s painful descent into dementia.
Fact: Coffee Is Good for You
Sep 29, 2014 People "give up" coffee the way they do cigarettes and red meat, but numerous studies tell us that unlike those other vices, America's liquid breakfast of choice has many health benefits.
Study: Blood Test Can Predict Alzheimer’s Disease
Mar 10, 2014 Researchers in the United States say they have developed a prototype blood test that can tell with 90 percent accuracy whether a healthy person will develop Alzheimer's disease within three years.
Get Me to Hogeweyk Before It’s Too Late
Feb 22, 2014 In an attempt to keep patients as physically and psychologically comfortable as possible, a town-within-a-town in the Netherlands allows people with dementia to walk, shop and eat -- and nearly everything else one does in a community -- safely.
Do We Sleep to Clean Our Brains?
Oct 19, 2013 American scientists think they've discovered the function of sleep: to clear molecular buildup in the brain in what Guardian science reporter Ian Sample calls a "rubbish disposal service."
League of Denial
Oct 13, 2013
