LONDON – The European League Against Rheumatism and the European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology have joined fo... More »
Insomnia is a more pronounced problem than expected among Hispanics over age 50, according to results of a study by Christopher N. Kaufmann, PhD, and ... More »
DENVER – Cognitively intact patients when diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea after age 65 were 2.2-fold more likely than were controls to develo... More »
BERKELEY, Calif. – Few people have the unusual set of professional experiences that Dr. Lonny Shavelson does. He worked as an emergency room physici... More »
Delirium is one of the most difficult problems for hospitalists to manage, in part because our management of delirium is often learned on the fly duri... More »
Midlife interventions including physical activity, hypertension control, and maintaining healthy HDL cholesterol may ward off later cognitive decline,... More »
VANCOUVER – The risk of dimethyl fumarate lymphopenia – and perhaps progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy – is greatest in patients 60 year... More »
LOS ANGELES – Patients over the age of 80 who present with diverticulitis requiring an emergent Hartmann’s procedure have a 30-day mortality rate ... More »
BETHESDA, MD. – Alzheimer’s disease is not a one-size-fits-all diagnosis.
As part of a large family of related dementias, it presents some diagno... More »