The Alzheimer’s Association suggests that major neurocognitive disorder (formerly known as dementia) caused by Alzheimer’s disease is a “silent epidemic” in African Americans, noting that the <a...
Adults with type 2 diabetes or prediabetes in midlife had greater cognitive decline over the next 20 years than did people without diabetes, according to the findings from a large prospective cohort...
BERLIN – The first-ever dementia risk score designed specifically for patients with type 2 diabetes has successfully undergone external validation and is ready for everyday use by clinicians, Rachel...
Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries suffering from poor-prognosis cancer who received hospice care were found to have lower rates of hospitalizations, admissions to intensive care units, and...
BERLIN – Chronic use of benzodiazepines by elderly patients is associated with a 43%-51% increased risk of being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease 5-10 years later, according to a large case-control...
Elderly patients with type 2 diabetes had diminished frontal brain activity on functional magnetic resonance imaging that correlated with deficits in working memory and executive function,...
BOSTON– The number of hepatitis C virus antibody tests increased by 15.4% after the 2012 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention task force recommendation calling for one-time HCV testing in baby...
BOSTON – The estimated cost of treating all eligible U.S. hepatitis C patients with a new generation of high-priced medications may be breathtaking, but would the resulting savings over those cured...
BOSTON – The call to screen Baby Boomers for hepatitis C virus infections appears to have gone unheeded so far, results from a Chicago primary care clinic show.
Screening increased by only 2% among...
BOSTON– Almost two-thirds of baby boomers presenting to Alabama emergency departments were unaware of their hepatitis C virus status, despite having such high-risk factors as past intravenous drug...
