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MedPage Today) — A structured multidomain lifestyle intervention may help slow changes in brain white matter associated with aging, a secondary analysis of data from the randomized POINTER trial suggested. Compared with a self-guided intervention…
Older adults who followed a structured, 2-year healthy lifestyle program improved their memory and thinking skills significantly more than those who received only general health advice, according to the Latin American Initiative for Lifestyle Intervention to Prevent Cognitive Decline (LatAm-FINGERS) trial, published in The Lancet. Gains were about 55% greater per year on overall tests
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The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has published six pieces of research relating to efforts to reduce Campylobacter in chicken meat.The papers cover interventions applied at slaughterhouses, in the supply chain, by food companies, in cutting and processing plants, and at the consumer level…
MedPage Today) — Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Paramedics on June 14 responded to a “cardiac arrest” for an unconscious person at the home of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the day McConnell was hospitalized for…
A patient arrives with shortness of breath, lower-extremity edema, and fatigue. Is it heart failure? Severe valvular disease? A noncardiac problem? For many nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs), the answer often depends on an echocardiogram that may not be available for hours — or…
A novel economic model projects that patients with heart failure would live longer and spend less time in the hospital by expanding heart failure care to include pharmacist- and nurse practitioner-led medication management. Findings from the novel study in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology demonstrate the cost-effectiveness of this service and offer a roadmap toward
MedPage Today) — A new charter calls on the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) to consider “non-vaccine interventions” and changes the focus, membership structure, and rules that govern the influential panel. Societies…
MedPage Today) — The Trump administration is moving to restart the specialized LGBTQ+ option for youth who contact the 988 crisis intervention hotline, but the group that helped pioneer the idea is being shut out. The Trevor Project, the leading…