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Anchor lead: Transplant recipients may not respond well to Covid vaccines, Elizabeth Tracey reports People who’ve received organ transplants don’t produce the antibody response to their first dose of an mRNA vaccine against Covid-19 seen in others, research by Dorry …
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Anchor lead: Are new drug trial results meaningful in Alzheimer’s disease? Elizabeth Tracey reports A new drug that clears something called amyloid from the brain may delay progression of Alzheimer’s disease, recently released data indicate. Constantine Lyketsos, an Alzheimer’s disease …
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Anchor lead: How often is someone with dementia overmedicated? Elizabeth Tracey reports Polypharmacy refers to someone taking a multitude of medicines, with a recent study demonstrating that in people with dementia, polypharmacy with drugs that affect the brain occurs in …
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Anchor lead: Should specialized emergency departments exist for geriatric patients? Elizabeth Tracey reports Emergency departments are frequently chaotic places, and for older people may make the experience of being in one traumatic. A recent study suggests that specialized EDs should …
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Anchor lead: Barriers to universal access to telestroke services need political will to overcome, Elizabeth Tracey reports With Zoom and other technologies employed nationally, why can’t some people who have strokes receive expert opinions on treatment and management via telestroke? …
