October 17, 2024, Press Release from the Alzheimer's Association: TOLEDO, OH, Oct. 17, 2024—1.4 million people nationwide live with Lewy body dementia (LBD) according to the Lewy Body Dementia Association. The critical need for more attention, research, and treatments for people with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). DLB is the second most common type of progressive dementia. There are no treatments that can slow or stop the brain cell damage caused by dementia with Lewy bodies. Current strategies focus on helping with symptoms.

A Florida woman has her aneurysm cured after doctors perform surgery through her eyelid. 

Paralysis, multiple sclerosis, and ALS. These conditions impact millions of lives with little hope for improvement. But that may not always be the case. Barb Consiglio has the details on scientific breakthroughs that may one day make these conditions treatable and bring hope for recovery to those diagnosed with a wide range of currently incurable diseases and injuries.

An Ohio mother has a lot to be grateful for this Christmas after having a golf ball-sized aneurysm treated in her brain while she was pregnant. Mallory Wehage, who is a mother of three, reflects on the difficult journey she faced after doctors at Cleveland Clinic found a golf-ball-sized aneurysm on her brain. Doctors wasted no time determining the best treatment plan, but there was a big factor they had to consider, her unborn baby. Mallory was pregnant at the time with her third child.

Wednesday marks the halfway point for the 4-day camp offered to kids in grades 2 through 10. The camp offers a collection of stem-focused activities that allow students to prepare themselves for future education. Campers were given the opportunity to make their own videos, compete in a rocket league as an e-sports team, and dissect a sheep brain.

A stroke is caused when an artery that brings blood to part of the brain gets blocked, causing that part of the brain to stop working. If the blockages can be removed, then blood can return to the brain and prevent loss of bodily functions. Where the blockage occurs in the brain determines how severe the effects of the stroke can be. Some of the signs of a stroke are numbness or weakness on one side of the body, speech problems, double vision, and/or vertigo.

Close to 820,000,000 people go hungry every night across the world. But one local community is doing all they can to put an end to world hunger.

“There’s no reason at all in the world that anybody goes to bed hungry,” said Ellen Ditto, Rise Against Hunger Delphos host.