Chemo + breast cancer combo accelerates functional decline in seniors
May 29, 2024
The findings compared older adults with breast cancer not receiving chemotherapy and older adults without breast cancer.
Cases of coronavirus moving from mink to people confirmed by CDC
Apr 19, 2022
Samples of the virus collected from four infected people had two mutations previously identified in farmed mink in Europe.
Physical activity linked to reduced dementia risk in seniors
Dec 16, 2021
Even low amount of light-intensity physical activity was linked to a reduced dementia risk compared with total sedentary behavior.
Fluvoxamine cuts hospitalizations in high-risk COVID-19 outpatients
Oct 28, 2021
The rate of high-risk COVID-19 outpatients needing prolonged emergency care or transfer to tertiary hospital was lower with fluvoxamine versus placebo.
U.S. to buy $1 billion worth of rapid COVID-19 tests
Oct 06, 2021
Many Americans have reported difficulty getting testing appointments or buying at-home tests.
Dementia risk scores have high error rates
Jun 14, 2023
The authors say that four common risk prediction tools have limited clinical utility for 10-year risk assessment.
Early ivermectin does not reduce hospital admission in COVID-19
Apr 04, 2022
Also, no decrease was seen in prolonged emergency department visits for patients with COVID-19 symptoms for up to seven days and at least one risk factor for progression.
Late-onset alcohol abuse may signal dementia
Apr 12, 2022
Findings particularly for behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia
Cognitively stimulating jobs may lower risk for dementia
Aug 19, 2021
“A possible mechanism for this association is the finding that cognitive stimulation is associated with lower levels of plasma proteins that might inhibit axonogenesis and synaptogenesis and increase...