Medical Marijuana Legalized in Pennsylvania. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HARRISBURG â Pennsylvania is now the 24th state in the country to offer medical marijuana. Governor Wolf signed the bill into law Sunday afternoon at a ceremony in the Capitol rotunda surrounded by advocates and lawmakers.
Many people wonder whether thereâs a chance that they could get Alzheimerâs disease from chemotherapy. There is no evidence of this happening in any direct sense. Chemotherapy does not appear to cause the same biochemical changes in the brain that are found in Alzheimerâs disease.
Damage to the nerve cells in the brain, which can occur in several areas of the brain, causes dementia. Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of progressive dementia. Currently, treatment options focus on slowing or minimizing the development of symptoms. The latest information that I could find was posted on the Journal of Molecular Psychiatry, July 17, 2013. One promising new approach to early stage dementia involves is a recombinant DNA vaccine composed of multiple specific inhibitory domains of NOIs (neurite outgrowth inhibitors).