Neurology
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Dementia diagnosis a good time to reduce polypharmacy
Time of diagnosis can be a potential inflexion point for deprescribing long-term medications with safety risks, limited benefit, or possible...
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Most with early AD not eligible for new antiamyloid drugs
Older patients aren’t eligible largely because of the presence of medical conditions or neuroimaging findings.
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Few meet eligibility for newer Alzheimer’s drugs
Fewer than 10% of early Alzheimer’s patients in a real-world cohort would qualify for trials of anti–amyloid-beta monoclonal antibodies, a study...
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Playing football linked to higher Parkinson’s risk
“These are people who are likely already concerned for or at risk for having this disease. We don’t yet know how our findings translate to the...
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Which factors distinguish superagers from the rest of us?
The superagers indicated that generally they had been more active than the control subjects during their middle years.
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West Nile infections rising in the U.S.
West Nile Virus is the leading cause of mosquito-borne disease in the continental United States.
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TBI tied to increased mental health diagnoses, time to suicide
“Folks in mental health probably have a lot of patients who have brain injury in their practice, and they don’t know it and that’s an important...
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‘Emerging’ biomarker may predict mild cognitive impairment years before symptoms
Low NPTX2 levels are predictive of MCI symptom onset more than 7 years in advance.
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Inhaling pleasant scents during sleep tied to a dramatic boost in cognition
“To my knowledge, that level of [memory] improvement is far greater than anything that has been reported for healthy older adults ...”
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A new and completely different pain medicine
Patients assigned to the highest dose of VX-548 had a statistically significant lower cumulative amount of pain in the 48 hours after surgery.
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Depression at any stage of life tied to increased dementia risk
The double risk persists regardless of when in life depression is diagnosed.