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Anchor lead: Most people shouldn’t be taking aspirin to prevent cardiovascular disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports Aspirin really doesn’t help otherwise healthy older people avoid cardiovascular disease, a major new trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine reveals. Erin …

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Anchor lead: Doctors may not be adequately describing risks and benefits of cancer screening, Elizabeth Tracey reports When people with significant risk factors for lung cancer talked with their doctors about the risks and benefits of screening, those discussions lasted …

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Anchor lead: Amyloid and Alzheimer’s disease isn’t always important, Elizabeth Tracey reports Aggressively removing amyloid from the brains of people who had Alzheimer’s disease only slightly slowed their rate of cognitive decline, a recent study found. Constantine Lyketsos, an Alzheimer’s …

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Anchor lead: A treatment for Alzheimer’s disease seems to offer modest benefit, Elizabeth Tracey reports A drug that’s been under investigation for some time has finally produced some modest benefit in removing the substance called amyloid from the brains of …

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