Cell Phones May Help Alzheimer's Disease Victims?

Recently released research study from the University of South Florida shows some evidence that the electromagnetic waves emitted from cell phones cleared the brains of mice of deposits of beta-amyloid -- a protein that accumulates in the brain of Alzheimer's sufferers to form the disease's signature plaques. With older mice, the exposure of the waves improved their memories, as the study published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease showed.

This is obviously early research and is quickly spreading across the news media, as any possible help in the fight against Alzheimer's is very interesting to the largest portion of the population, the Baby Boomers, who are approaching the age when concern of the impact diseases such as Alzheimer's will have on them and the country's health and economical systems.

• As many as 5.3 million people in the United States are living with Alzheimer's.

• Alzheimer's and dementia triple healthcare costs for Americans age 65 and older.

• Every 70 seconds, someone develops Alzheimer's.

• Alzheimer's is the seventh-leading cause of death.

• The direct and indirect costs of Alzheimer's and other dementias to Medicare, Medicaid and businesses amount to more than $148 billion each year.
(source: Alzheimer's Association)

When these types of studies hit the media, especially when presenting possible hope for issues as devastating as Alzheimer's Disease, they are of great interest but must be kept in perspective as only possibilities of hope. Proof and transference into the real world of medical use on patients is quite a few years away, and that is IF these types of results are indeed proven to work.

Nevertheless, it still gives hope to the millions of people who will succumb to many issues of aging in the near future.