Local news highlights
A promise fullfilled After turbulent year, Eckert qualifies for 113th marathon
Dale Eckert speaks to the Newburyport Daily News following the Marathon [read]
Dale & Dale ‘Run for the Memory’
Dale Eckert and his wife and team mate, Dale Ann Granger-Eckert talk about the lead up to the Boston Marathon [read]
'I kicked cancer' Eckert to run Boston Marathon less than a year after diagnosis
Dale Eckert opens up about his battle with cancer in the Newburyport Daily News [read]
Let's get it started: Family to hit pavement for Alzheimer's research
Marathoners Kate Hassan, Patricia Verrier, and Matt Mansfield in the Daily News Tribune [read]
Run For The Memory suits Cook perfectly
The Salem News profiles runner Tom Cook [read]Siblings run for father, future
Read about Run for the Memory team member, Matt O'Connor in the Community Advocate [read]
Chapter CEO Jim Wessler on WBZ
On the impending Alzheimer's crisis [listen]Ten Million U.S. Baby Boomers will Develop Alzheimer's Disease
Massachusetts Must Prepare for Emerging Epidemic [read more]
How fit is your brain?
Lowell Sun reporter Hiroko Sato investigates the brain-fitness software trend [read more]Needham woman advocates for Alzheimer's patients
Read about the efforts of Joanne Szamreta to help raise awareness and influence legislators [read more]Alzheimer's Advocacy Action Day
Alzheimer’s Regulations Get Support from Families, Legislators [read more]Massachusetts Joins Effort to Raise Awareness of Alzheimer's Disease on World Alzheimer's Day
Bay State Focuses Attention on Growing Health Crisis of Alzheimer’s Disease [read more]Bridging the Gap
In the GLOBE, writer Alice Dembner reports that advocates counter misconceptions of Alzheimer's among minority groups. Read about one family’s struggle and the challenges to African-American and Latino communities [read more]
