The American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association have released new guidelines on poststroke management of adults in the primary care setting.
New data presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference indicate that measuring levels of this biomarker in plasma and cerebrospinal fluid can detect Alzheimer disease with high...
In a study of nearly 1.5 million people, researchers aimed to determine the impact of infections on the risk of mortality among people with or without dementia. The findings were presented at the...
Influenza vaccination may be a “promising, readily available candidate” for the prevention of Alzheimer disease, according to new findings presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference.
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Despite known, independent associations of hearing loss and vision loss with dementia, less is known about the relationship between dual sensory impairment and dementia risk. Researchers aimed to assess...
The FDA has approved a drug therapy to treat seizures associated with Dravet syndrome–a chronic, rare, and life-threatening form of epilepsy–among patients aged 2 years or older.
In a recent study, researchers aimed to investigate whether cigarette smoking affected all-cause incident stroke among black people, who are disproportionately impacted by stroke compared with white...
Researchers investigated whether shorter door-to-needle times were associated with improved long-term outcomes among more than 61,000 Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 years or older who were treated for acute...
