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Medical Xpress / Half of older patients with dementia remain on psychotropic drugs a year after starting on them, study finds
Initial prescriptions for medications affecting cognition, such as antipsychotics, are disproportionately likelier to come from acute and post-acute settings such as emergency rooms, hospitals, and skilled nursing facilities ...
Medical Xpress / Racism and socioeconomic stress may alter pregnancy biology, leaving black women nearly three times more likely to die
Stresses experienced by black women, such as socioeconomic inequalities, may alter key processes in the body that predispose them to worse pregnancy outcomes than white women, a study by the University of Cambridge has found. ...
Medical Xpress / Study identifies new treatment targets for vascular dementia
A new study led by researchers at UNSW Sydney's Center for Healthy Brain Aging (CHeBA) has identified potential biological targets that could help guide future research into treatments for vascular dementia—a common and serious ...
Medical Xpress / Drugging the undruggable: Cancer's slipperiest targets finally meet their match
Researchers at the University of British Columbia and BC Cancer have developed a new way to target proteins long considered "undruggable," opening the door to new treatments for prostate cancer and other serious diseases. ...
Medical Xpress / Children may be born with two complex cognitive functions already established, research reveals
A new study is the first to show that two of our most sophisticated cognitive functions, using and understanding language and being able to sense how other people feel, have distinct origins in the brain in young children—matching ...
Medical Xpress / Minimally invasive procedure outperforms drugs for advanced atrial fibrillation
A minimally invasive heart procedure may be a better first-line treatment than medication for people living with advanced forms of atrial fibrillation, according to a major international clinical trial led by researchers ...
Medical Xpress / Why newborn memory circuits start crowded, then slim down as brains mature
The hippocampus is a key brain region involved in memory formation and spatial orientation. It transforms short-term memories into long-term ones, helping us retain and build upon our experiences. Researchers led by Magdalena ...
Medical Xpress / Fewer than half of nationally funded health studies break down findings by sex, which could lead to missed insights
A decade ago, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) began requiring scientists to "consider sex as a biological variable" in order to receive NIH grant funding—a policy intended to encourage scientists to think ahead about ...
Medical Xpress / Umbilical cord blood transplant with pooled stem cell product shows 96% survival and no GVHD in leukemia patients
A new way of using umbilical cord blood for treating blood diseases could make the treatment more accessible to patients who need a stem cell transplant. A Phase II clinical trial of patients undergoing a cord blood transplant ...
Medical Xpress / Repurposed cancer drugs may help repair gut barrier in Crohn's disease
University of Houston biologists have contributed to a potential breakthrough in treating Crohn's disease by shifting the clinical focus from symptom management to addressing a primary underlying cause of the condition. Crohn's ...
Medical Xpress / A new explanation for the rise in heart disease risk after menopause
Virginia Tech scientists at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute say the increased risk of cardiovascular disease after menopause may stem not only from declining hormone levels, but also from how those changes influence ...
Medical Xpress / Routine Alzheimer's screening promised early answers, but one crucial group saw almost nothing change
A new study conducted by Indiana University School of Medicine researchers has found that primary care screenings for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) in older adults did not cause psychological distress for ...
