FPN || Geriatric Medicine

Consortium opens Alzheimer’s data to global research community

Posted on: 04/03/2015 - 22:04

A public-private Alzheimer’s disease research consortium has christened its open-access research gateway, hoping to speed drug development by sharin... More »

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

ACP guidelines for preventing, treating pressure ulcers

Posted on: 02/03/2015 - 22:00

Alternating-air and low-air-loss mattresses and overlays have little data to support their use for preventing or treating pressure ulcers, the Clinica... More »

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

ACP guidelines for preventing, treating pressure ulcers

Posted on: 02/03/2015 - 22:00

Alternating-air and low-air-loss mattresses and overlays have little data to support their use for preventing or treating pressure ulcers, the Clinica... More »

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

Pathologic proteins in Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s also collect in skin cells

Posted on: 24/02/2015 - 21:00

The same dysregulated proteins that form in the brains of patients with Alzheimer’s disease or Parkinson’s disease appear to clump within their sk... More »

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Health status, not age, key to treating prostate cancer in elderly

Posted on: 20/02/2015 - 22:08

PARIS – Health status should be evaluated when determining how best to treat an older man with prostate cancer, attendees at an international congre... More »

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Health status, not age, key to treating prostate cancer in elderly

Posted on: 20/02/2015 - 22:08

PARIS – Health status should be evaluated when determining how best to treat an older man with prostate cancer, attendees at an international congre... More »

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

AUDIO: Chronically ill patients benefit from psychiatric care

Posted on: 19/02/2015 - 19:46

As the director of the Visceral Inflammation and Pain Center at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, psychiatrist Eva Szigethy has been instru... More »

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Aging process is complex in highly active adults

Posted on: 15/02/2015 - 18:47

The aging process is highly individualistic and complex, even when many confounding factors are removed, according to Ross D. Pollock, Ph.D., and his ... More »

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

ACIP recommends pneumococcal vaccine for 65+ in 2015 schedule

Posted on: 02/02/2015 - 22:00

The 2015 adult immunization schedule is similar to last year’s schedule, with one major change, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Pre... More »

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

M.O.R.E. means less delirium in ICU

Posted on: 27/01/2015 - 15:21

PHOENIX – Adding a protocol of bundled nonpharmacologic interventions to the currently recommended standard of care nearly halved the amount of time... More »

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

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