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People who have one to two alcoholic drinks a day are often at a lower risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and dementia than their non-drinking peers, researchers concluded after analyzing 44 studies about moderate alcohol intake and its effect on the heart and the brain. More than half of the studies - all published since 1990 and conducted on humans over the age of 60 and animals - found benefits to sipping a regular glass of wine, beer or spirits. Only a handful of the studies, all reviewed in July, 2007, by a consortium of seven American researchers in Chicago, made negative links. Lead author Michael Collins of Loyola University Chicago's school of medicine says the report helps physicians and the public understand that moderate alcohol consumption may benefit not only the heart but the brain as well. "Alcohol in these two different organs is triggering a protective state that uses similar biochemical pathways," he says of findings in the report to be publis...

Clifton B. Kruse , Jr., a revered elder law attorney who was admired as much for his kindness and generosity to fellow practitioners as for his grasp of the law, died December 30, 2008, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He was 74. The cause was complications from Alzheimer's disease. For many in the field, Kruse set the standard for all that an elder law attorney can and should be. One of elder law's founding fathers, he combined a gentlemanly charm, warmth and caring with one of the sharpest and most ethical of legal minds. Wrote Arizona elder law attorney Robert Fleming in a tribute , "In my third of a century of elder law practice I have never met another lawyer who managed to pull together sophistication, heartfelt empathy, intellectual rigor and courtly manner in the same fashion Clifton Kruse projected. He did it, to all appearances, effortlessly. He was a friend and mentor to many in the elder law community (I count myself among those legions)." Kruse was the e...