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Alzheimer’s updates: Mice, poor sleep

Products for mice, available at local stores such as Northwest Seed and Pet, can ensure a happier and healthier life for your pet. (Brian Plonka / The Spokesman-Review)
Products for mice, available at local stores such as Northwest Seed and Pet, can ensure a happier and healthier life for your pet. (Brian Plonka / The Spokesman-Review)

Mice give people the creeps if they creep into your home, but lab mice might be the new best friends of older folks worried about Alzheimer's disease. In a promising study with mice, those given a decades-old cancer drug -- bexarotene -- saw fewer deposits of the toxins that build up in Alzheimer's brains. Read here.

And in unrelated news, sleep problems in mid-life might be linked to Alzheimer's later on. Read here.

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Spokesman-Review features writer Rebecca Nappi, along with writer Catherine Johnston of Olympia, Wash., discuss here issues facing aging boomers, seniors and those experiencing serious illness, dying, death and other forms of loss.