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Every week, people worried about losing their memories call the University of South Florida's Byrd Alzheimer's Institute for help. They go in, get various tests and find out whether they have a disease that now afflicts 5.1 million Americans.
But in the near future, Byrd officials also hope to start hearing from a different crowd: younger people with no memory impairment.
Much of the buzz in the Alzheimer's research community is over early detection. The hope is that drugs and treatments that don't do much once the disease is established might work better if given earlier in the disease process.
The stakes are enormous. In addition to the cost in suffering, Dr. David Morgan, the Byrd institute's CEO, estimates that Florida alone spends more than $1 billion of its $17 billion Medicaid budget on care for Alzheimer's patients in nursing homes.
As huge as the Alzheimer's toll is now, it will only escalate as the baby boomers age unless effective treatments are found. It's a public health problem that many fear will sink the nation's already overburdened care system. Read more: tampabay.com
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