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How should preventive healthcare change as people age? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Research on when preventive healthcare like cancer screenings should start is abundant, with some guidelines, such as for breast or colorectal cancer, pushing the time to begin screening earlier. But when should such screenings stop? That’s the focus of research …
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How would you feel about being screened for dementia on a regular basis? Elizabeth Tracey reports
People with dementia but no diagnosis can have more problematic hospitalizations, Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Older people with undiagnosed dementia who get hospitalized experience worse outcomes than other groups of older adults who require hospitalization, a study by Halima Amjad, a dementia and geriatrics expert at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues has shown. Amjad: Focusing on …
Undiagnosed dementia can be risky, especially when someone is hospitalized, Elizabeth Tracey reports
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People who have dementia frequently aren’t diagnosed, and when such a person is hospitalized they are at much higher risk for poorer outcomes. That’s the focus of research by Halima Amjad, a geriatrics and dementia expert at Johns Hopkins. Amjad: …
Can peripheral blood sampling be combined with radiation therapy for cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Cancers continue to change, or mutate, as time goes on, often acquiring the ability to outmaneuver treatments. Valsamo Anagnostou, a cancer researcher at Johns Hopkins, has used repeated blood sampling for cancer cells with treatment strategies like radiation to stay …