UPDATE FOR YOU ON
EYEWITNESS NEWS AT SIX.
(MM)
BILL GATES'
ANNOUNCEMENT THAT HE
IS DONATING---- 50 MILLION
DOLLARS TO ALZHEIMERS
RESEARCH IS CREATING A
BUZZ IN THAT
COMMUNITY...
INCLUDING BUTLER
HOSPITAL'S MEMORY AND
AGING PROGRAM IN
RHODE ISLAND.
(CG)
EYEWITNESS NEWS
REPORTER MICHAELA
MACDONALD FOUND OUT
WHAT KIND OF IMPACT
THIS DONATION COULD
HAVE IN THE OCEAN
STATE.
SHE HAS MORE -----
NEW AT FIVE THIRTY.
RESEARCHERS AT BUTLER
HOSPITAL'S MEMORY AND
AGING PROGRAM SAY THIS
FUNDING IS DESPERATELY
NEEDED IN THIS FIELD AND
THEY SEE THIS IS A HUGE STEP
FORWARD.
IT'S A DISEASE THAT 5.5
MILLION AMERICANS AND THEIR
FAMILIES ARE DEALING WITH
EVERYDAY.
its progressive and currently we
have no cure so we've
essentially at
this point all been touched
personally by alz disease in
some
way and the impact on the
individual
is of course, devastating, and
on the
family as well
DR. DANIELLE GOLDFARB IS A
NEUROLOGIST AND
PSYCHIATRIST AT THE BUTLER
HOSPITAL MEMORY AND AGING
PROGRAM WHERE SHE SEES
PATIENTS AND DOES
ALZHEIMERS RESEARCH. SHE
SEES BILL GATES' 50 MILLION
DONATION TO THE DEMENTIA
DISCOVEY FUND HAVING A
HUGE IMPACT ON THIS FIELD.
what this funding is doing is,
he is
taking a different approach, he
is
looking outside of the box into
different ways to potentially
treat
alzheimers disease.
GOLDFARB SAYS THE FUNDING
WILL EXPAND THE SCOPE OF
THE RESEARCH THAT IS
CURRENTLY BEING DONE TO
INCLUDE THINGS LIKE
IMMUNOLOGY AND HOW THAT
IMPACTS THE BRAIN--- WITH
THE GOAL OF PREVENTING
ALZHEIMERS DISEASE
what they are trying to do is
bring
together the heads of the field
in
research, alzhiemers research,
pharmaceutical companies,
academia and investors putting
their
heads together and learning from
all
the previous trials and the
mistakes
that were made, and they are
essentially creating an
alzehimers
cure incubator.
ONE OF BUTLER'S CURRENT
RESEARCH INITIATIVES IS AN
ALZHEIMERS PREVENTION
REGISTRY... THEY ARE LOOKING
FOR RHODE ISLANDERS 55 AND
OLDER WHO ARE INTERESTED
IN GETTING INVOLVED IN
RESEARCH TO CONTACT HTEM.
YOU CAN FIND A LINK TO THAT
ON OUR WEBSITE AT WPRI.COM.
MICHAELA MACDONALD,
EYEWITNESS NEWS.
