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Less than 6 hours of sleep a night linked to serious, chronic illness
Chronic health problems can interrupt sleep. “Which is the chicken, and which is the egg?”
Conference Coverage
Cognition-boosting ‘smart drugs’ not so smart for healthy people
“While the drugs administered were motivational, the resulting increase in effort came at a cost in the loss of productivity.”
Literature Review
Risk score refines TIA management for PCPs, emergency docs
“The Canadian TIA Score can be used to determine the urgency for an assessment by a stroke neurologist.”
Conference Coverage
In epilepsy, heart issues linked to longer disease duration
Researchers hope to tease out mechanism of cardiovascular risk to improve monitoring and prevention.
Conference Coverage
NICU signs hint at cerebral palsy risk
“Infants who are at higher risk for developing cerebral palsy had more respiratory instability early on in life.”
Conference Coverage
Research fails to justify post-COVID-19 wave of new-onset parkinsonism
While cases have been reported, current data do not yet justify the concept of a post–COVID-19 parkinsonism wave.
Opinion
The ‘root cause’ visit
“How did we miss out on that?” “What?” my physician friend replied as we stood in line at the coffee cart. “Root cause. I mean, we invented this...
Feature
Apixaban outmatches rivaroxaban in patients with AFib and valvular heart disease
Compared with rivaroxaban, patients who received apixaban had a 43% reduced risk of stroke or embolism.
Literature Review
No effect of diet on dementia risk?
“We did not find a link in our study, which had a long follow-up period, included younger participants than some other studies and did not require...
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Are doctors savers or spenders?
Medscape polled 468 U.S. physicians and 159 living outside of the United States.
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New COVID variant gaining traction in U.S.
Concerning features of the BQ.1 variant include mutations that could potentially escape vaccines and treatments for COVID-19.