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Active lifestyle may slow cognitive decline in people with Parkinson’s and dementia gene: study
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Alicia Lasek
Apr 02, 2021
Greater physical activity at the study’s start appeared to lessen gene-related cognitive decline two years later, the authors report.
Multimorbidity may up seniors’ dementia risk by 63 percent over 15 years
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Alicia Lasek
Oct 03, 2022
Identifying high-risk disease clusters could help clinicians to better target patients for dementia care, researchers say.
The coronavirus likely began to spread worldwide last year, say researchers
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Alicia Lasek
May 06, 2020
The pandemic may have started as early as October 2019, quickly adapting to its human host, according to a new genetic analysis.
Certain female carriers of Alzheimer’s gene have faster decline than males: study
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Alicia Lasek
Nov 22, 2022
Women who carry the APOE e4 gene and develop early-onset Alzheimer’s disease may have quicker cognitive decline than men with these attributes, a new study has found.
Vitamin D may protect against Alzheimer’s, new report asserts
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Alicia Lasek
Mar 06, 2023
Exposure to vitamin D supplements is linked to longer dementia-free survival and a lower rate of dementia when compared to no exposure, a new study has found.
Monoclonal antibodies cut COVID-19 hospitalizations in high-risk adults: Mayo Clinic
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 22, 2021
Patients treated early in the disease with either one of two antibody therapies had similarly low rates of hospitalization within 28 days.
Common diabetes drug may serve as novel Afib treatment
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Alicia Lasek
Oct 13, 2022
If approved, it would be the first new drug identified to treat this disease of the heart in a decade, according to Cleveland Clinic researchers.
After 20 years on the market, AbbVie’s dry-eye drug Restasis to be available as generic
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Alicia Lasek
Feb 03, 2022
Dry eyes affect nearly 19% percent of adults aged 75 years and older, according to data from a national survey.
Treatment patterns, not genetics, drive prostate cancer disparities, study finds
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Alicia Lasek
May 29, 2023
Prostate cancer, which affects 1 in 11 men aged 70 and older, has some of the largest disparities in outcomes across all cancer types, investigators say.