http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/labnotes/archive/2008/07/25/alzheimer-s-have-many-grains-of-salt-ready.aspxThe huge annual Alzheimer’s meeting starts tomorrow in Chicago, and it comes at an interesting time for the field. I mean “interesting” in, of course, the sense of the old curse, “may you live in interesting times.” The last couple of weeks brought shocksenCommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Debug Build: 2.18)http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/labnotes/archive/2008/07/25/alzheimer-s-have-many-grains-of-salt-ready.aspx#525621Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:58:57 GMT544c64cf-7058-4151-925a-a0fd041e73dd:525621Jessicap<p>Hey Sharon, I've been reading your Newsweek stuff for a while. This piece is interesting and a little dispiriting. Good to tease out the details of these studies! I was a health writer for newspapers for a while. Now I write the newly launched What in the Universe blog on the Science Channel's website. Post a comment if you are moved by aliens, robots, or the oil crisis: </p> <p><a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://blogs.discovery.com/what_universe/">http://blogs.discovery.com/what_universe/</a></p> Blog: Lab Noteshttp://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/labnotes/archive/2008/07/25/alzheimer-s-have-many-grains-of-salt-ready.aspx#528533Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:51:02 GMT544c64cf-7058-4151-925a-a0fd041e73dd:528533lindald1211<p>Anybody read Pamela Weintraub's book &quot;Cure Unknown?&quot;</p> <p>In a 2006 Harvard study, Dr. Alan MacDonald found that over 2/3 of alzheimers brains had bacteria infections in the hippocampus.</p> Blog: Lab Notes