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Carol Hall, Acclaimed Musician and Songwriter, Dies of PPA

Carol Hall, a classically trained pianist and successful Broadway composer, died of logopenic primary progressive aphasia (PPA)…

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New FTD PSA Airs on 92.1 KKDV

  Last Monday, to mark World FTD Awareness Week 2018, 92.1 KKDV began airing a PSA about FTD — the most…

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N.Y. Times Profiles Person with FTD in Article about Living with Dementia

An article published by The New York Times on October 5 highlights the ways in which persons…

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AFTD Volunteer Pens Delaware State News Op-Ed

In honor of World FTD Awareness Week, AFTD volunteer Gene Thornton detailed her family’s FTD journey in…

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Illustrator Nancy Carlson Speaks About FTD’s Devastating Financial Impact

In 2011 Nancy Carlson’s husband of 30 years, Barry McCool, was diagnosed with frontotemporal degeneration after showing…

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Woody Durham Inducted into the National Sports Media Association’s Hall of Fame

The late Woody Durham, longtime radio voice of the North Carolina Tar Heels, was inducted into the National…

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