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Anchor lead: Should you use a transcranial stimulation machine on your own? Elizabeth Tracey reports Transcranial direct stimulation or TDCS delivers a small electrical current across the skull to the brain, and new research by Kyrana Tsapkini and colleagues at …
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Anchor lead: Can transcranial stimulation help people who are having trouble with speech? Elizabeth Tracey reports Transcranial direct current stimulation or TDCS sends a small electrical current through the skull to stimulate certain areas of the brain. Now research by …
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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: With Medicaid expansion, more people are at least filling prescriptions for drugs to help them get off opioids, Elizabeth Tracey reports Medicaid expansion in a few states has led to an increase in prescriptions for a drug combination …
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Anchor lead: Integration with drug treatment is needed when people come to the ED with an overdose, Elizabeth Tracey reports Emergency departments are well-equipped to handle opioid overdose, but less so when it comes to getting people into drug treatment, …
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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 …
