The Plan lays out a bold vision for Alzheimer's prevention and treatment, calling for a comprehensive, collaborative approach that engages partners throughout the public, private, and non-profit sectors.

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The Alzheimer's prevention study published in today's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) provides interesting clues as to how Alzheimer's might be prevented in women, but its results are less than ironclad.

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"It shouldn't have any impact on clinical practice, because these are not the kind of definitive results that influence clinical decisions, " says John Breitner , a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University who was a co-author of the Alzheimer's prevention study.

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He ticks off big problems: a dearth of doctors who specialize in geriatrics, meager funding for prevention of diseases like Alzheimer's, and fragmented long-term care services.

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The average American is 36 times more likely to die from heart disease than be murdered, six times more likely to die in an accident and four times more likely to die from Alzheimer's disease, according to data compiled by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics.

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