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November 13, 2004
Lay news: Goodbye came early
Jennifer Ryan, "Goodbye came early" (20 June 2004, East Valley Tribune Online)
Leading text: "When Scott Phelps visits his mother, she calls him Bobby. Pauline Phelps gives her son a hug, sits on the couch next to him and forgets he’s there. The 84-year-old prefers to talk to her brother, Paul, or Aunt Shorty, both of whom died decades ago. "We’re ready to go home," Pauline says to the air in front of her. "We are home," Scott, 52, of Ahwatukee Foothills tells her. Not really. Pauline, who is cared for in an Ahwatukee Foothills group home, lost the life she once knew and the mind she once had after participating in a clinical drug trial for Alzheimer’s disease. The drug being studied, AN-1792, held the promise of becoming a vaccine that could prevent or slow the decline of Alzheimer’s — a disease that afflicts an estimated 4 million people nationwide, including 85,000 in Arizona, yet has few effective treatment options. Instead, the experimental drug made about a half dozen people like Pauline worse..." [FullText]
Leading text: "When Scott Phelps visits his mother, she calls him Bobby. Pauline Phelps gives her son a hug, sits on the couch next to him and forgets he’s there. The 84-year-old prefers to talk to her brother, Paul, or Aunt Shorty, both of whom died decades ago. "We’re ready to go home," Pauline says to the air in front of her. "We are home," Scott, 52, of Ahwatukee Foothills tells her. Not really. Pauline, who is cared for in an Ahwatukee Foothills group home, lost the life she once knew and the mind she once had after participating in a clinical drug trial for Alzheimer’s disease. The drug being studied, AN-1792, held the promise of becoming a vaccine that could prevent or slow the decline of Alzheimer’s — a disease that afflicts an estimated 4 million people nationwide, including 85,000 in Arizona, yet has few effective treatment options. Instead, the experimental drug made about a half dozen people like Pauline worse..." [FullText]
posted by Dr. Koudinov @ 13.11.04
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