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Probiotics improve nonmotor symptoms of Parkinson’s
Participants taking the probiotic also saw a reduced delay in “time to on” of treatment with levodopa, thus reducing the delay until effectiveness...
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CTE common among young athletes in largest brain donor study
“A lot of people think CTE is a result of high-level, professional play such as football, ice hockey, and boxing, but it can affect amateur...
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Could retinal changes be a harbinger of Parkinson’s?
“I think we are still several years away from converting these findings into individual level prediction for patients.”
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FDA okays first biosimilar for multiple sclerosis
“Biosimilar medications offer additional effective treatment options that have the potential to increase access for people living with relapsing...
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Gene therapy offers new way to fight alcohol use disorder
Compared to primates that received a placebo intravenously, those that received the growth factor gene decreased their drinking by about 90%. They...
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Dementia diagnosis a good time to reduce polypharmacy
Time of diagnosis can be a potential inflexion point for deprescribing long-term medications with safety risks, limited benefit, or possible...
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Most with early AD not eligible for new antiamyloid drugs
Older patients aren’t eligible largely because of the presence of medical conditions or neuroimaging findings.
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Few meet eligibility for newer Alzheimer’s drugs
Fewer than 10% of early Alzheimer’s patients in a real-world cohort would qualify for trials of anti–amyloid-beta monoclonal antibodies, a study...
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Playing football linked to higher Parkinson’s risk
“These are people who are likely already concerned for or at risk for having this disease. We don’t yet know how our findings translate to the...
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Which factors distinguish superagers from the rest of us?
The superagers indicated that generally they had been more active than the control subjects during their middle years.
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West Nile infections rising in the U.S.
West Nile Virus is the leading cause of mosquito-borne disease in the continental United States.