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Many late-life hospitalizations and ED visits could be avoidable

Posted on: 10/04/2014 - 15:15

WASHINGTON – During the last year of life for community-dwelling elders, up to three-fourths of hospital visits might have been avoidable. Nursing home residents also were susceptible to potentially...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Exploring SYMPLICITY’s failure, Part 2

Posted on: 04/04/2014 - 18:35

WASHINGTON – Far from being doomed after the failure SYMPLICITY HTN-3, renal denervation for refractory hypertension will continue to be explored. But it can’t go very far without finding a way to...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Simple smell test may predict donepezil response

Posted on: 28/03/2014 - 13:15

ORLANDO – Predicting whether add-on donepezil will improve residual cognitive deficits in an elderly patient on adequate antidepressant therapy may be as plain as the nose on the patient’s face....

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Late-life depression can be dementia prodrome

Posted on: 26/03/2014 - 14:05

ORLANDO – Elderly patients with acute depression who show deficits on brief structured tests of memory and executive function are at high risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease within the next few...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Half of stroke survivors returned to driving

Posted on: 25/03/2014 - 15:40

SAN DIEGO – Only 6% of 162 stroke survivors underwent a formal driving evaluation, but 51% returned to driving within a year,

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

USPSTF: Evidence still ‘insufficient’ to back cognitive impairment screening

Posted on: 24/03/2014 - 21:00

Citing an ongoing lack of data about the benefits and harms of screening, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has left unchanged the recommendations of its 2003 guidelines on cognitive impairment...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Autoimmune disease coalition seeks to increase physician knowledge

Posted on: 18/03/2014 - 21:10

WASHINGTON – Some 64% of family physicians are "uncomfortable" or "stressed" when diagnosing autoimmune disease, and almost three-quarters said they have not been given adequate...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Glycerol phenylbutyrate reduces hepatic encephalopathy events in cirrhosis

Posted on: 10/03/2014 - 15:35

Glycerol phenylbutyrate significantly reduced the number of cirrhosis patients experiencing hepatic encephalopathy and the time to first event, a phase II trial has shown. The randomized,...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Plasma biomarker panel predicts amnestic MCI or Alzheimer’s

Posted on: 10/03/2014 - 15:00

Researchers have identified a panel of 10 lipid metabolites that can predict the development of either amnestic mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer’s disease within 2-3 years with 90% sensitivity...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Group issues recommendations for genetic susceptibility testing for carbamazepine skin reactions

Posted on: 07/03/2014 - 19:10

Genetic testing for alleles that affect histocompatibility should be the rule for patients who initiate the drug carbamazepine, according to new recommendations issued by the Canadian...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

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