A Look at the Fraud Allegations Against Stanford's President
(MedPage Today) -- In this video, Jeremy Faust, MD, editor-in-chief of MedPage Today, and Holden Thorp, PhD, editor-in-chief of Science, discuss the recent announcement that Marc Tessier-Lavigne, PhD, president of Stanford University, would resign... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - July 21, 2023 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Alzheimer's Blood Tests May Improve Primary Care Diagnoses
(MedPage Today) -- AMSTERDAM -- A blood test may improve the accuracy of Alzheimer's diagnoses in primary care, data from the BioFINDER Primary Care study suggested.
Primary care physicians correctly identified the presence of Alzheimer's-related... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - July 21, 2023 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
A Crisis Curveball at the Cubs Game
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This story is from the Anamnesis... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - July 21, 2023 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Study of 1.6 Million Veterans Links Neighborhood and Dementia Risk
(MedPage Today) -- AMSTERDAM -- Significant differences in dementia incidence emerged based on neighborhood deprivation, a study of 1.6 million U.S. veterans showed.
Over a mean follow-up of 11 years, older veterans in the most socioeconomically... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - July 20, 2023 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Those Studies Backing Vagus Nerve Stimulation for RA? Umm...
(MedPage Today) -- Credit: CoRus13
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients got no benefit from vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) in a sham-controlled trial, in sharp contrast to previous open-label studies, researchers said.
Only 25.0% of 52 patients... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - July 20, 2023 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Sleep Quality Linked With Cognition Across Five Cohorts
(MedPage Today) -- AMSTERDAM -- Better sleep consolidation and the absence of sleep apnea were associated with better global cognition over 5 years, a pooled analysis of sleep studies in nearly 6,000 adults showed.
Across five cohorts, higher... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - July 19, 2023 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Medicare to Cover More Alzheimer's PET Scans; IQ After Concussion; A Portrait of MS
(MedPage Today) -- CMS proposed ending restrictions on how many amyloid PET scans Alzheimer's patients can receive.
Ten-year dementia risk was lower for people who frequently engaged in literacy activities like taking classes or mental activities... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - July 18, 2023 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Trained Community-Based PCPs Can Make Accurate Autism Dx
(MedPage Today) -- Community-based primary care providers (PCPs) who receive specialty training can make accurate autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnoses in most cases, researchers found.
Among 126 kids ages 14 to 48 months, evaluation of the... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - July 18, 2023 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Low Amyloid Burden Bodes Well for Future Dementia Risk
(MedPage Today) -- AMSTERDAM -- An offshoot of the closely watched A4 trial, which mainly tested whether the anti-amyloid drug solanezumab could delay onset of Alzheimer's disease in high-risk individuals, showed that older people with low initial... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - July 17, 2023 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Interferon Tumbles, Oral Agents Gain as Initial MS Treatment
(MedPage Today) -- Prescribing patterns of initial disease-modifying therapies for multiple sclerosis have shifted dramatically since 2001, with oral agents driving down the use of platform injectables 73.8% by 2020.
The inflection point occurred... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - July 13, 2023 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Coffee and the Brain; Detecting Prodromal Parkinson's; Functional Seizure Clinics
(MedPage Today) -- Mechanisms related specifically to coffee -- not just caffeine -- may be why the beverage helps people stay alert. (Frontiers in Neuroscience)
Adding retinal layer thickness to the 2017 McDonald criteria improved diagnostic... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - July 11, 2023 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Adapted CAR-T Therapy Shows Promise in Myasthenia Gravis
(MedPage Today) -- The first study to use an RNA-based chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (rCAR-T) therapy in autoimmune disease showed people with generalized myasthenia gravis tolerated the treatment well and experienced improvements in disease... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - July 8, 2023 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Lewis Capaldi's Tourette's Episode Shows Adults Can Be Diagnosed, Too
(MedPage Today) -- Welcome to Culture Clinic, MedPage Today's collaboration with Northwell Health to offer a healthcare professional's take on the latest viral medical topics.
A video of 26-year-old Scottish singer Lewis Capaldi experiencing a... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - June 29, 2023 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
MS Disease Severity Tied to Genetic Variant
(MedPage Today) -- The first genetic variant associated with faster disease progression in multiple sclerosis (MS) has been identified.
In a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of 22,000 people with MS, a significant association between age-related... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - June 28, 2023 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Speech Predicts Alzheimer's; Afib and Dementia in Women; Who Gets Lecanemab?
(MedPage Today) -- Automated detection of speech changes in early Alzheimer's may predict disease progression, a longitudinal analysis suggested. (Alzheimer's & Dementia)
More blood pressure-lowering medications than those included in treatment... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - June 27, 2023 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
