Geriatrics
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Melatonin receptor agonist resets blind patients’ internal clocks
Major finding: Tasimelteon, an experimental melatonin receptor agonist, entrains about half of totally blind patients to a 24-hour circadian...
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Overtreatment common in high-risk diabetes patients
Major finding: Nearly half of diabetes patients at high risk for serious hypoglycemia, based upon advanced age, renal dysfunction, or cognitive...
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Two-minute Alzheimer’s test? Not so fast!
Major finding: All of 16 online tests for Alzheimer’s disease were rated as poor in all respects by two expert panels.Data source: Evaluation of...
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Aging-related functional decline boosts diabetes risk
Major Finding: New-onset mild aging-related decline in physical functioning resulted in a 19% excess risk of subsequently developing diabetes,...
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Octogenarians hard hit by insulin adverse events
Major finding: Diabetes patients aged 80 years or older were 2.5 times more likely to present to the emergency department for an insulin adverse...
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Subjective cognitive decline may be early omen of Alzheimer’s
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In vivo tau imaging confirms patient’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis
Major finding: The results of in vivo tau tangle PET imaging with [F-18]T808 in a patient diagnosed with Alzheimer’s were later confirmed in a...
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Cancer survivors may have lower Alzheimer’s risk
Major finding: The risk for incident Alzheimer’s disease was reduced by 51% in liver cancer survivors, 44% in survivors of pancreatic cancer, and...
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Subanalysis spurs continued study of solanezumab for Alzheimer's
Major finding: Solanezumab decreased cognitive decline by 34% and functional decline by 17% in a group of patients with mild Alzheimer’s disease....
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Insulin boosted memory in patients with high-risk Alzheimer's allele
Major finding: Apo E epsilon 4 noncarriers declined about 1 point relative to their baseline score on a composite endpoint of verbal memory tests...