PHILADELPHIA – An amyloid PET scan with florbetapir detected which patients with mild cognitive impairment had a high risk for further cognitive dec... More »
*Article updated 12/18/14
The massive $1.1 trillion spending bill that was approved by Congress before it left for an extended recess included several provisions aimed at bolstering...
PHILADELPHIA – Clostridium difficile infections among nursing home residents resulted in some 31,000 hospitalizations and 9,000 deaths nationally in 2012, population-based surveillance data...
CHICAGO – Endovascular repair of thoracic aortic aneurysms confers an immediate but short-lived survival advantage over open repair that completely disappears and then reverses 4.5 years after...
If you’re stumped about what to tell patients who ask you if they should be adding supplemental vitamin D to their diet, you’re not alone.
Speaker after speaker at a public conference on vitamin D...
SAN FRANCISCO – Obtaining palliative medicine consultations for geriatric trauma patients may help avoid futile interventions, suggests a retrospective cohort study reported at the annual clinical...
CHICAGO – Atrial fibrillation patients treated with an anticoagulant plus four or more other medications had significantly more bleeding complications than did those on fewer medications in a...
CHICAGO– Older black Americans are more likely to have hypertension and less likely to have it under control than are their white counterparts, yet paradoxically they are also on more...
PHILADELPHIA – A combination drug of dextromethorphan and quinidine significantly reduced aggression and agitation in patients with Alzheimer’s disease.
Associated with those improvements were...
PHILADELPHIA – An investigational 5-HT6 inhibitor in combination with donepezil significantly boosted cognition in patients with moderate Alzheimer’s disease and has advanced into three...
