Geriatrics
Applied Evidence
Keeping older patients healthy and safe as they travel
For older patients, the trip of a lifetime can be fraught with health hazards. There’s much you can do to keep them harm free.
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Alzheimer's assessment scale may not be accurate enough
Major Finding: Of the 11 components of the ADAS-Cog scale, 8 had significant ceiling effects and 6 suboptimally targeted the range of cognitive...
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FDA okays second quadrivalent influenza vaccine
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Flu Season Starts a Month Early
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Active lifestyle boosts brain structure in older adults
Major Finding: There was larger bilateral gray matter volume in the cingulate gyrus, hippocampus, and temporal lobes – areas responsible for...
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Tdap Vaccine Safety Comparable to Td for Seniors
Major Finding: The risk of adverse events with the Tdap vaccine in the elderly was comparable to that of the standard Td vaccine when administered...
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Apo E-Epsilon 4 Confers Attentional Benefits in Early Adulthood
Major Finding: Young adults who carried the high-risk apo E–epsilon 4 allele performed significantly better on attention tasks than did those...
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Bullseye on Overuse: Fewer Interventions for Better Care
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Strontium May Spare More OA Knees from Surgery
Major Finding: A daily dose of 1 or 2 g of strontium ranelate was associated with a significant delay in the progression of knee osteoarthritis;...
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Studies Identify Early Changes in Familial Alzheimer's Disease
Major Finding: Asymptomatic carriers of the PSEN1 E280A mutation aged 18-26 years showed higher CSF and plasma levels of amyloid-beta, greater...