Alabama’s Southern Research Focusing On ALS, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s Treatments

By Michael Tomberlin

This is the first in a three-part series on Southern Research’s Change Campaign.

When David Powell’s mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in September 2017, she was relieved.

That’s because in January 2017, she had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. After years of watching her own mother suffer from Alzheimer’s, she welcomed cancer as a preferable way to go.

“My mom told her sister, ‘This is such an answer to prayers, such a blessing that I got cancer.’ And we were all, ‘What?’ And she said it’s because ‘I won’t have to die from Alzheimer’s,’” said Powell, general manager of the service provider unit of LogicMonitor. “When you’re so concerned about one disease that cancer … seems like a blessing” (something needs to be done).

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