Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 21, 1996, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free March 1996 b5 poverty May boost to expert says by Dennis Bueckert Canadian press Ottawa Public health experts say deteriorating economic conditions have halted Progress against tuberculosis in Canada and could pave the Way for a resurgence of the after declining for almost 50 Canadas National rate of to infection generally has levelled and it has begun to Rise among such High risk groups As new the homeless and the reason for the plateau ing of the National rate of infection is says Earl director of tuberculosis control for the province of i dont think i can stress that the problem for certainly in Western Canada and in our major Urban is Sociol he told a symposium people who live in crowded and unsanitary with poor Are prone to tuberculosis Hershfield said the Issue has received Little Public attention because it is concentrated in marginalized but he warned the infection can spread to the rest of the popu the National rate of to infection among Nona Origi Nal people born in Canada is two cases per annual the rate among registered indians is 57 per its a one of the problems is it occurs in the Northwest in the Northern parts of the Western and who cares among infectious tuberculosis is the leading killer of adults in the fully one third of the global population is says the world health the disease is caused by a family of bacteria that can be spread from person to ten per cent of those infected will develop the a major source of tuberculosis infection in Canada is immigration from countries with High rates of the Ottawa Region has 4050 cases of to every almost All among immigrants from countries with a High Rale of said Edward Ellis of the Ottaw Carleton regional health Immi Grants now undergo a medical examination in their country of but they Are not tested for latent alzheimer clue found brain screenings May pave Way to Early detection of disease associated press Boston combining brain scans with careful genetic doctors Are now actually Able to see bad spots inside the brain that Are the Albu Mcerlain Early stages of alzheimer the innovation Means doctors May be Able to diagnose the Dis ease More than a decade before it starts to steal its victims mental accurate and Early detection of alzheimer disease has been a goal for Many this study shows it is possible to do said Zaven director of the alzheimer associations Ronald and Nancy Reagan research inst named for the former president and his the new technique is part of a whirlwind of research that Over the last three years has brought Doc tors much closer to understanding and perhaps even treating alzheimer All of it stems from the Surprise discovery that a Gene implicated in heart disease also appears to be involved in most alzheimer Eric Reiman and colleagues from Good Samaritan regional medical Centre in Phoenix began with a blood test for the suspect Gene and coupled its results with a form of brain imaging called positron Mission tomography pet for they published their results in today Issue of the new England journal of the Gene is known As Aioli Poproc Tein or Apo it comes in three varieties Apo e3 and it turns out the e2 version of the Gene protects people from while e4 makes it Start at a younger the risk from the most common Apo e Falls in since each person inherits two copies of every one from each everybody has one of six possible combinations of Apo and each confers a different risk of no combination guarantees development of the scientists have How people born with two e3 genes develop alzheimer 15 years on than people with two with a combination of one e3 and one the typical Onset is later the worst Luck is to inherit two these people develop alzheimer at an average age of re mans team set out to see if they could find signs of damage in people with the double e4 genetic they studied 11 men and average age who had two e4 genes and a family his tory of alzheimer but no symptoms 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