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Hypertension kick-starts vascular dementia in mid-age, but some brains fight back, study finds … Expansion drove thousands of new Medicaid patients to nursing homes, but do they belong? … Sleep apnea patients struggle as common CPAP machine is recalled … Experimental light therapy for Alzheimer’s receives federal funding … California has the lowest coronavirus rate in the nation … COVID has killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 Spanish flu