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There is a lot of information available on how to care for a person with dementia. However, there is another person needing care: the caregiver. Statistics show that 40% of caregivers of dementia patients die of stress related disorders before their caree does. Dr. Garmon interviewed 42 caregivers of people with dementia for her book "I Am Not Alone: Conversations with Care Partners of People with Dementia" and has been caring for her husband with ALS and FTD (frontotemporal degeneration) since he was diagnosed in 2016. Through her personal experience and the writing of her first book, she ...

Renowned scientist Professor Michael Briggs was many things: a Space expert at NASA, an adviser to the World Health Organisation, a successful Big Pharma executive. But Michael Briggs had a secret. A scandal broke out in 1986 when research he conducted was revealed to be compromised. Patients were also claiming that a pregnancy test he pioneered had caused devastating birth defects. Soon after his fall from grace, Briggs was dead, struck down by a mystery illness in a foreign country.