Unfortunately, Alzheimer’s disease steals my dad’s independence daily as it does for 5 million Americans who live with the degenerative neurological disease. Whenever there’s a new study out, I read with trepidation. But I found this Time story over the weekend that offers the results of a small but potentially positive development of using younger people’s blood as a treatment. “Researchers at Stanford University announced the first results of a novel study in which they infused blood from young donors into a small number of people with mild to moderate forms of Alzheimer’s disease in the hopes of improving the disease’s symptoms. … Those receiving the plasma showed statistically significant improvements in some measures of their independence, such as their ability to shop on their own, control their finances and balance their checkbooks.” Of course, the results need to be confirmed in a larger study, but I’ll take a bit of good news to start the week. Read more