Caution urged for use of azithromycin as COVID treatment
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 17, 2020
When taken together with commonly prescribed drugs that affect the heart’s electrical impulses, azithromycin is linked with a 40% increase in cardiac events. These include fainting, heart palpitations...
Feds outline details of fast-tracked COVID vaccine delivery strategy
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 17, 2020
Officials plan to deliver doses to prioritized populations within 24 hours of federal authorization, likely beginning with healthcare workers as early as November. Subsequent deliveries and recipients...
Once-daily levodopa pill for Parkinson’s touted by developer
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 17, 2020
Drug developers from Singapore are set to test a microcapsule designed to continuously deliver levodopa throughout the day. They hope the new pill will resolve the problem of Parkinson’s symptom...
Clinical briefs for Thursday, Sept. 17
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 17, 2020
COVID mortality among some older Blacks is five times that of whites, analysis finds … CCRC partnership trains future geriatricians to treat growing aging population … Intensive blood pressure-lowering...
High-dairy diet cuts fractures by a third across 60 long-term care facilities
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 16, 2020
A boost in milk, cheese and yogurt consumption for thousands of residents over two years was tied to a significant drop in falls and fracture incidence, investigators say.
Higher vitamin D levels may lower dementia risk, experts say
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 16, 2020
People who consume high levels of vitamin D in food have a lower risk of developing dementia when compared with those who consume less, according to brain aging researchers.
Chronic loneliness predicts type 2 diabetes onset in older adults, study finds
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 16, 2020
Isolation or living alone did not predispose study participants to diabetes, but loneliness due to poor-quality relationships did, investigators say.
Clinical briefs for Wednesday, Sept. 16
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 16, 2020
SNF Quality Reporting Program seeking public input on healthcare-associated infections measure … NIH increases funding for dementia study of Mexican Americans … Arthritis drug may help shorten COVID...
Most clinicians don’t follow hypertension diagnosis guidelines, survey finds
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 15, 2020
In a surprise to researchers, few professionals surveyed across 10 medical centers reported using out-of-office blood pressure monitoring to screen for and diagnose hypertension.
WHO chief: ‘Rethinking’ eldercare a must after nursing home COVID losses
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 15, 2020
The care of older generations should be seen as a health rights issue going forward, said Michael Ryan, M.D., executive director, WHO Health Emergencies Program.