When her husband’s short-term memory began slipping badly, Ruth Woodhead inquired at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) whether he could be tested for Alzheimer’s disease. After all, two of Herbert “Woody” Woodhead’s kin, his father and paternal grandmother, had suffered severe memory loss, dementia, in their old age. Ruth told the doctors that for […]
Winning Over Lou Gehrig’s Disease
By A. Robert Smith Editor of Venture Inward Magazine One of them who has improved dramatically is David Atkinson, 59, whose doctor told him in 1991 that he had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and there was nothing that could be done to overcome it. A star football player, pole vaulter, and boxer in his youth, […]