What Super-Agers Show; Epstein-Barr and Early MS; Five Variants of Alzheimer's
(MedPage Today) -- Super-agers like Norman Lear, who died last month at age 101, show what successful cognitive aging looks like. A study at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine that's recruiting 10,000 super-agers and their adult children may... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - January 9, 2024 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Dementia Drugs Seen Lowering Risk for Macular Degeneration
(MedPage Today) -- Use of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors (AChEIs) for dementia, such as donepezil (Aricept), may reduce the risk that patients will develop age-related macular degeneration (AMD), researchers said.
Each year of AChEI treatment... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - January 4, 2024 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Groups Blast FDA's Opioid Abuse Surveillance Proposal
(MedPage Today) -- Several advocacy groups urged the FDA to not rely on a drug surveillance system that reportedly has ties to embattled opioid maker Purdue Pharma and other drug companies.
Public Citizen, Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - January 3, 2024 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Alzheimer's Paper Retracted; Pets and Human Cognition; Long COVID Internal Tremors
(MedPage Today) -- Nature announced that another Alzheimer's paper led by former Stanford president Marc Tessier-Lavigne, PhD, was retracted, identifying anomalies in the 2009 study of amyloid precursor protein (APP) and death receptor 6 (DR6... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - January 2, 2024 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Death by Doctor; Apple Watch Sales Rebooted; Nerve Transplanted to Paralyzed Hand
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Canada is bracing for a controversial new law that will allow doctors to help people with mental illness end their life. (New York Times)
Apple can again sell its... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - December 28, 2023 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
DAPT Stays Helpful for Minor Stroke Even With Later Presentation, Worse Symptoms
(MedPage Today) -- The benefit of dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) for a minor ischemic stroke seems to apply outside the 24-hour time window and minimal stroke symptoms for which the treatment is currently recommended, based on results from the... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - December 27, 2023 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Midlife Alzheimer's Biomarker; How Measles Spread in the Brain; MS and HIV
(MedPage Today) -- Midlife serum Alzheimer's biomarkers were linked with accelerated cognitive decline in women. (Alzheimer's & Dementia)
Researchers mapped how the measles virus mutated and spread in the brain of a person who died with subacute... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - December 26, 2023 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Dementia and Estrogen; Case Report on Fatality After Lecanemab; MRI-Based Brain Age
(MedPage Today) -- A nested case-control study showed that estrogen-only use in women was associated with a higher dementia rate compared with no estrogen use. (JAMA)
Folate or folic acid supplementation was tied to a higher risk of Alzheimer... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - December 19, 2023 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Spinal Cord Stimulation Questioned for Chronic Pain
(MedPage Today) -- Independent studies suggested that spinal cord stimulation improved chronic pain no more than placebo, but industry-funded critics cast doubt on these findings, researchers said.
Recently published papers "found evidence of... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - December 19, 2023 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Keto Diet on Par With Further Medication for Infants With Drug-Resistant Epilepsy
(MedPage Today) -- A ketogenic diet was similar in efficacy and tolerability to further anti-seizure medication for infants with drug-resistant epilepsy, a randomized clinical trial in the U.K. found.
On the study's primary outcome, the median... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - December 15, 2023 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Dementia-Sleep Link Has a New Twist
(MedPage Today) -- Sleep regularity in midlife and at older ages may be a novel dementia risk factor, data from 88,000 people in Great Britain suggested.
Day-to-day consistency in sleep-wake patterns showed a U-shaped association with incident... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - December 14, 2023 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Twins and Dementia; CRISPR and Alzheimer's; BTK Inhibitor Fails in MS Trials
(MedPage Today) -- Dementia in one twin raised the risk of a shorter lifespan of a co-twin without dementia. (Alzheimer's and Dementia)
Daily cocoa extract supplementation did not lead to overall cognitive function benefits compared with placebo... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - December 12, 2023 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
ED Visits for Migraine More Likely in Rural Areas
(MedPage Today) -- ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Rural patients were more likely to use the emergency department (ED) and receive opioid analgesics for migraine, a cross-sectional epidemiologic study showed.
The national rural rate of ED utilization for... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - December 7, 2023 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Antisense Drug Trial Provides Key Insights About Huntington's Disease
(MedPage Today) -- The halted GENERATION HD1 (GENHD1) study of the investigational antisense drug tominersen provided insights about Huntington's disease staging and informed future clinical trials, researchers said.
The phase III study involved... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - December 7, 2023 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Blood Test May Be Able to Tell Which Organs Have Accelerated Aging
(MedPage Today) -- About one in five healthy people ages 50 and older had an organ that was aging at an accelerated rate, which may increase mortality and signal organ-specific disease, a study of nearly 5,700 people suggested.
In an analysis... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - December 6, 2023 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
