First appropriate use guidance published for Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 28, 2021
The new guidelines cover how to choose appropriate patients, safely scale up to a full dose, monitor side effects and assess effectiveness. The authors also address when to stop therapy and what patients...
Meds won’t ease seniors’ loneliness, but ‘social prescribing’ can help, geriatricians say
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 28, 2021
Some lonely seniors are prescribed psychotropic drugs at double the rate of their non-lonely peers, a new study finds. But these medications may not alleviate their problems, the researchers say.
Less popular hypertension drug has fewer side effects, study finds
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 28, 2021
Two common choices for treating high blood pressure do a good job of preventing related cardiovascular events. But one drug class is less associated with swelling, cough, pancreas inflammation and gastrointestinal...
Clinical briefs for Wednesday, July 28
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 28, 2021
Vaccine reporting requirements overwhelm providers during COVID-19 outbreaks … Delta variant’s spread prompts CDC to re-up indoor mask-wearing recommendation … VA becomes first federal department...
COVID-19 connected to dementia-like disability, multiple studies find
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 27, 2021
A bout with COVID-19 can cause dementia-like brain changes and related functional decline, especially for seniors and in people who lose their sense of smell, researchers are finding.
There has been a steady increase in non-COVID-19 respiratory viruses since federal and local authorities began lifting pandemic mitigation measures in early 2021, the agency says.
Second dose of mRNA vaccine is safe after acute allergic reaction to first, investigators say
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 27, 2021
The CDC has recommended that people who have a reaction to the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines take the Johnson & Johnson vaccine as a second shot. But the new study suggests that this “mixed” series of...
Clinical briefs for Tuesday, July 27
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 27, 2021
Feds publish long-COVID disability coverage guidelines … Genesis’ targeted COVID-19 vaccine efforts increased uptake among Black, Hispanic employees … Israel may recommend Pfizer’s COVID-19 booster...
CDC safety panel: J&J vaccine benefits outweigh rare neuro risks seen in older adults
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 26, 2021
The benefits of the shot — including reduced hospitalization, intensive care unit admission and death — outweigh the risk of contracting Guillain-Barre syndrome, the Advisory Committee on Immunization...
New cases of antifungal-resistant yeast infections in nursing homes alarm CDC
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 26, 2021
For the first time, the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention has identified U.S. nursing home residents and hospital patients with candida auris yeast infections that resist all first-line antifungal...