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Reaching 90 Without Dementia Doesn't Mean You're In The Clear, Study Finds As Risk Continues Into Old Age
23+ hour, 24+ min ago (963+ words) Making it to 90 without dementia might seem like proof that someone has escaped one of the biggest threats associated with aging. But new research suggests the risk does not simply disappear with the passing years. In a study of 805 adults…...
Intensive Blood Pressure Control Cut Dementia Cases 15 Percent Over Seven Years in a Large Village Trial
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (1071+ words) Lowering blood pressure aggressively for four years reduced new dementia diagnoses by 15 percent over seven years, according to results from a 33,995-person trial presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress in Munich. Dementia prevention has been one of the…...
Her Hallucinations Featured the King of Hell and a Tiny Thalamic Lesion Was Staging the Whole Scene
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (802+ words) The hallucinations were not vague flickers or shapes at the edge of vision. A 56-year-old Japanese woman saw and heard the King of Hell. She developed delusions of jealousy, then delusions of possession, accompanied by impulsive and violent behavior. Her…...
He Was Scanned for a Skull Fracture and the CT Found
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (963+ words) The name sounds like something from a children's book. Pott's puffy tumor is not a tumor at all, and the thing it actually describes is far less charming: the frontal bone of the skull being destroyed by infection, with a…...
Catheter Ablation Beat a Fake Procedure at Stopping Atrial Fibrillation but Not at Making Patients Feel Better
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (1076+ words) A heart procedure performed more than 500,000 times a year worldwide did not improve patients' quality of life any more than a convincing fake version of the same procedure, according to a trial presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress…...
Rob Lowe Says a Clinical Trial Extended His Grandmother's Life and He Wants Patients Asking Sooner
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (889+ words) Rob Lowe has spent this year describing a family history that runs through three generations of women. His great-grandmother, his grandmother, and his mother all had breast cancer. Lowe described that history again this week on the CURE Talks Cancer…...
Boredom Made Healthy Adults Feel Pain Sooner, and a Funny Video Pushed the Threshold Back Up
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (622+ words) Being bored is usually filed under mildly annoying. A randomized controlled trial out of Sweden suggests it does something measurable to the body: it makes pain arrive sooner. Researchers put 114 pain-free adults through a boring video, a funny one, or…...
Daily Statin Cut Major Heart Events 30 Percent in Adults Over 70 but Independence Was Unchanged
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (731+ words) A large randomized trial has produced the first clear answer to a question millions of older adults and their doctors have argued over without evidence: whether starting a statin after age 70, in someone who has never had a heart attack…...
Rare Dermatomyositis Gets Its First Targeted Therapy After Decades of Limited Options
4+ day, 12+ hour ago (540+ words) Adults with dermatomyositis have spent decades taking medicines designed for other diseases. That changed on August 27 with the Food and Drug Administration's approval of Lisraya, known generically as brepocitinib, the first oral therapy and the first targeted therapy cleared specifically…...
Swearing Silently in Your Head Helped People Hold a Plank Longer, but Did Nothing for Grip Strength
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (805+ words) The research is well established at this point. Say a swear word out loud, and you can hold your hand in ice water longer, squeeze a grip dynamometer harder, and push a bike further. The obvious problem is that most…...