• Cleaning Our Ears: What Risks Do You Take

    Updated: 2011-07-28 19:05:21
    BATHROOM DANGER: Avoid Doing This When You Get Out of the Shower!

  • Cancer as a Transmitted Disease?

    Updated: 2011-07-28 19:05:01
    Can America's Top Killer Be Contagious?

  • Popular Weedkiller Under Fire…Again:

    Updated: 2011-07-28 19:04:43
    Nice Lawn But For What Cause ?

  • Hospice Medication Update: Morphine/Oxycodone Combination Product

    Updated: 2011-07-27 18:30:00
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  • Vascular Dementia Rate Edges Alzheimer's Disease

    Updated: 2011-07-21 21:00:00
    The rate of dementia in those older than 65 in developed countries can be as high as 10%, according to a scientific statement from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association.

  • Hospice Medication Alert: Arcapta Neohaler for COPD

    Updated: 2011-07-21 16:18:00
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  • ICAD: Blood Test May Be New Tool to Detect Alzheimer's

    Updated: 2011-07-20 05:55:58
    PARIS -- Results with a multi-marker panel of blood proteins and demographic factors corresponded with high accuracy to beta-amyloid plaque burdens seen in PET scans and to clinical diagnoses, a researcher said here.

  • ICAD: Alzheimer's Drugs Fail to Deliver Survival Benefit

    Updated: 2011-07-19 23:35:53
    PARIS -- A new, more detailed analysis has essentially erased the survival benefit for dementia patients treated with cholinesterase inhibitor drugs, according to the researcher who reported the initial findings in 2008.

  • FDA’s Approved Anti Cancer Drug Was Found Useless

    Updated: 2011-07-19 18:27:55
    FDA's constant struggle with cancer drug Avastin?

  • How Moving Your Bowel Wrong Way Can Get You In Trouble

    Updated: 2011-07-19 18:27:36
    Moving Your Bowels Naturally May Protect You From Many Diseases

  • Can FDA Regulations Really Protect You From Skin Cancer?

    Updated: 2011-07-19 18:27:23
    Learn How to Support Your Immune System Naturally

  • ICAD: Exercise Protects Brain in New Studies

    Updated: 2011-07-19 15:00:00
    PARIS -- Two new studies presented here add to the mountain of research indicating that physical activity in older people keeps their brains active and healthy as well.

  • ICAD: Targeting Risk Factors Could Slash AD Numbers

    Updated: 2011-07-19 07:00:00
    PARIS -- If the known risk factors in Alzheimer's disease were actually modified to a relatively modest degree, nearly half a million Americans with the condition might have avoided it, according to a study presented here.

  • ICAD: Vascular Defects Predate Cognitive Decline

    Updated: 2011-07-18 20:11:09
    PARIS -- Individuals who lose mental abilities with age often show evidence of cerebrovascular defects years before symptoms develop, researchers said here.

  • Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease: A Case For Caution

    Updated: 2011-07-18 13:30:00
    : Pages Home About Videos Links Tweets Monday , July 18, 2011 Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease : A Case For Caution Recently , a group of distinguished neuroscientists commissioned by the Alzheimer’s Association and the National Institute on Aging updated guidelines for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease . The new guidelines view the pathology that leads to Alzheimer’s disease as process that occurs over many years , if not decades . As a result the panel developed different guidelines for different disease stages . Perhaps the most novel and interesting guideline is for a newly identified stage : preclinical Alzheimer’s . disease The concept of preclinical Alzheimer’s disease recognizes that the brain damage that leads to dementia starts to develop many years before patients develop

  • ICAD: Alzheimer's Patients Not Helped by Antidepressants

    Updated: 2011-07-18 05:17:41
    PARIS -- In patients with dementia, standard antidepressants were no better than placebo at relieving depression symptoms and actually made many of them feel worse, a researcher said here at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease.

  • Antipsychotic Rx Still Common in Parkinson's

    Updated: 2011-07-14 22:22:01
    Half of Parkinson's disease patients with psychosis continue to receive antipsychotic drugs despite a black box warning that this could be deadly, researchers found.

  • Menopause and Andropause Workshop July 20th

    Updated: 2011-07-13 18:30:32
    Dr Sergey Kalitenko's Menopause & Andropause Workshop July 20th

  • Decisions on Feeding Tubes in Advanced Dementia

    Updated: 2011-07-12 14:00:00
    Pages Home About Videos Links Tweets Tuesday , July 12, 2011 Decisions on Feeding Tubes in Advanced Dementia There is probably no one disease that so fully encompasses the intersection between geriatrics and palliative care as does advanced dementia There is a high prevalence of distressing symptoms such as pain and dyspnea , which only become more common as the disease progresses . There is significant functional decline , caregiver distress , and great need for advanced care planning . There is also a very high likelihood that individuals with very advanced disease will undergo burdensome interventions that offer little evidence of benefit . A great example of one intervention that offers little in the way of benefit and yet is commonly performed in advanced dementia is the feeding tube

  • Another Way to Prevent Migraines

    Updated: 2011-07-08 19:49:11
    Meds Just Close Our Eyes to the Truth

  • This Habit Could Spoil Your Life

    Updated: 2011-07-08 19:48:51
    About Health Risks of Staying Up Late

  • What Makes Smart People Act Stupid?

    Updated: 2011-07-08 19:46:56
    Bad Decisions and Their Possible Origins

  • Hospice Medication Alert: Fentanyl Nasal Spray Approved by FDA

    Updated: 2011-07-06 16:32:00
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