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Where You Live Can Shape How Alzheimer ’ s Affects You
The FDA in mid-July for the first time ever approved an Alzheimer’s drug, Leqembi. The annual price-tag will run patients $26,500. The same week, the Alzheimer’s Association for the first time ever released county-level data to identify which communities are most struggling with the disease.
6.7 million Americans live with Alzheimer’s disease and 134,000 of them will die because of it each year. We’ve known these aggregate numbers for a while now, but with new data and new drugs, healthcare specialists can now better target attention and resources.
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Source: TIME: Health - August 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeremy Ney Tags: Uncategorized freelance Source Type: news
7 Ways to Bring a Dead Friendship Back to Life
It might sound obvious, in the midst of a loneliness crisis, that having friends matters. But many of us “underestimate the very real impact our friendships can have on our life,” says Marisa Franco, a psychologist and author of Platonic: How The Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends. “Connection is the most important factor predicting our health, both physical and mental.”
A growing body of research supports that point: Healthy, stable friendships can protect against depression and anxiety, increase life satisfaction, extend longevity, and improve health metrics li...
Source: TIME: Health - August 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Angela Haupt Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Scientists Are Just Beginning to Understand COVID-19 ’ s Effect On the Brain
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors started to notice something striking. For what was originally described as a respiratory virus, SARS-CoV-2 seemed to have a strong effect on the brain, causing everything from loss of taste and smell and brain fog to, in serious cases, stroke.
NYU Langone Health, a New York city research hospital, started collating those anecdotes in hopes of better understanding how the virus affects the brain and nervous system. Years later, the project has morphed from focusing solely on acute symptoms to also tracking the long-term neurologic issues that some people with Long COVID experience, sa...
Source: TIME: Health - July 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Loneliness Is As Deadly As Smoking, Surgeon General Says
WASHINGTON — Widespread loneliness in the U.S. poses health risks as deadly as smoking a dozen cigarettes daily, costing the health industry billions of dollars annually, the U.S. surgeon general said Tuesday in declaring the latest public health epidemic.
About half of U.S. adults say they’ve experienced loneliness, Dr. Vivek Murthy said in a report from his office.
“We now know that loneliness is a common feeling that many people experience. It’s like hunger or thirst. It’s a feeling the body sends us when something we need for survival is missing,” Murthy told The Associated Press in ...
Source: TIME: Health - May 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: AMANDA SEITZ/AP Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Public Health wire Source Type: news
Up to 60% of stroke survivors may develop cognitive decline within a year
Up to 60% of stroke survivors develop cognitive decline within a year, and one-third progress to dementia within five years, according to a new scientific statement from the American Stroke Association.
Source: CNN.com - Health - May 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Two 'cheap' drugs found to fight strokes that can cause dementia - 'positive step'
The common medications were revealed to safely improve outcomes for people experiencing a lacunar stroke.
Source: Daily Express - Health - February 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
High blood pressure? Try eating tuna and bananas, says the Gut Health Guru DR MEGAN ROSSI
DR MEGAN ROSSI: High blood pressure raises your risk of heart attack and stroke (as well as kidney disease, sight loss and dementia). It can also raise your risk of dying from Covid if you catch it.
Source: the Mail online | Health - February 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
FDA Approves Lecanemab, a New Alzheimer ’s Drug
On Jan. 6, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new drug to treat Alzheimer’s disease in its early stages.
Lecanemab, which will be available under the name Leqembi, can slow the cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer’s disease by 27%, according to data submitted to the FDA by the drug’s developers, Eisai and Biogen. It’s only the second medication to show any improvement in neurodegeneration, a key criterion in the FDA’s consideration for approval.
“For a long time, this is what we have been looking for,” says Dr. Sam Gandy, professor of neurology and psychi...
Source: TIME: Health - January 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized Drugs healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Fat on three areas of the body may protect the brain from stroke and dementia - new study
The findings suggest fat distribution may be an essential determinant in the way the body fights off disease.
Source: Daily Express - Health - December 19, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Cellulite might PROTECT against dementia and strokes, study suggests
Women who tend to collect fat around their thighs, hips and buttocks may enjoy extra protection against dementia, stroke, and other inflammatory diseases than men who store fat differently.
Source: the Mail online | Health - December 13, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Three million Britons in global medical study to help develop new ways to detect illnesses sooner
It is hoped the research will help doctors better predict who is at higher risk of diseases such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease, dementia and stroke.
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 24, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
It's not OK to let kids drink coffee. Why do we do it?
We have become a coffee-crazed culture. Yet, with all the studies coming out on how a cup of joe can reduce the risk for diabetes, heart disease, stroke, dementia and some cancers, what's the harm?
Source: CNN.com - Health - October 14, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
For seniors who had a stroke and risk dementia, exercise can help, study says
While a stroke doubles a person's risk for dementia, a new study suggests that fairly intensive, regular exercise can improve cognitive function in adults.
Source: Health News - UPI.com - October 13, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
It's not OK to let kids drink coffee — so why do we do it?
We have become a coffee-crazed culture. Yet, with all the studies coming out on how a cup of joe can reduce the risk for diabetes, heart disease, stroke, dementia and some cancers, what's the harm?
Source: CNN.com - Health - October 13, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
It's not OK to let kids drink coffee -- so why do we do it?
We have become a coffee-crazed culture. Yet, with all the studies coming out on how a cup of joe can reduce the risk for diabetes, heart disease, stroke, dementia and some cancers, what's the harm?
Source: CNN.com - Health - October 13, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
