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What Is a Blue Zone Certified Clinician?
Recent healthy lifestyle behavior and community approach, Blue Zones, touts lower disease rates and living longer.
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Common Antidepressants Ranked by Potential for Weight Gain
Patients receiving escitalopram, paroxetine, and duloxetine 10%-15% more likely to gain at least 5% of baseline weight.
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Specific Antipsychotics Linked to Increased Pneumonia Risk
Only the use of antipsychotics with high anticholinergic potency was associated with pneumonia risk.
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Feds May End Hospital System’s Noncompete Contract for Part-Time Docs
NLRB issued a complaint against Mount Sinai Health System for contracts that request confidentiality, bar docs from poaching.
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Is Anxiety a Prodromal Feature of Parkinson’s Disease?
The risk for Parkinson’s disease was double in those with anxiety, compared with the non-anxiety group.
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Benzos Are Hard on the Brain, But Do They Raise Dementia Risk?
The findings suggest that benzodiazepine use “may have subtle, long-term impact on brain health.”
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Cardiovascular Health Becoming a Major Risk Factor for Dementia
“Cardiovascular risk factors may have contributed more to dementia risk over time, so these deserve more targeted action for future dementia...
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Revised Criteria for Alzheimer’s Diagnosis, Staging Released
The new Alzheimer’s disease criteria feature a new biomarker classification system that incorporates fluid and imaging biomarkers as well as an...
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Common Cognitive Test Falls Short for Concussion Diagnosis
Almost half of athletes diagnosed with a concussion tested normally on the Sports Concussion Assessment Tool 5 (SCAT5), the recommended tool for...
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Form of B12 Deficiency Affecting the Central Nervous System May Be New Autoimmune Disease
The findings uncover “yet another example of a disease where antibodies getting into the brain are the problem.”
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Study Links Suicide to Missed Early Care After Discharge
Evidence of discharge communication between the inpatient facility and primary care clinician was infrequent, highlighting a gap in continuity of...