Neurology News
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(MedPage Today) -- Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients with glioma had a high concordance with tumor DNA and showed potentially useful prognostic potential, a small prospective study showed.
CSF-ctDNA was detected...
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(MedPage Today) -- Vaccination against herpes zoster, or shingles, was tied to significantly less dementia risk, a large-scale analysis of electronic health records in Wales showed.
Receiving the live-attenuated zoster vaccine (Zostavax) reduced...
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(MedPage Today) -- A novel plasma-based assay was more strongly associated with tau tangle pathology in Alzheimer's disease than other established blood biomarkers, researchers said.
The assay measured a new plasma tau species known as endogenously...
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(MedPage Today) -- Sleep deficiency was associated with atrophy of the inferior parietal region, which is observed in early Alzheimer's disease. (Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine)
Researchers assessed evidence supporting daylight saving time...
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(MedPage Today) -- In this second installment of MedPage Today's virtual roundtable series on pediatric low-grade glioma, moderator Jason Fangusaro, MD, of Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, is joined once again by Sabine Mueller...
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(MedPage Today) -- Scientists have developed a device that can translate thoughts about speech into spoken words in real time.
Although it's still experimental, they hope the brain-computer interface could someday help give voice to those unable...
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Although it was too late...
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(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- Routine use of devices to prevent cerebral emboli during transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) did not prevent strokes, a large randomized trial showed.
Incidence of stroke within 72 hours after TAVI or...
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(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- Semaglutide further solidified its efficacy for diabetes-associated cardiovascular conditions, this time building its positions in peripheral artery disease (PAD) and with an oral formulation, based on two major...
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(MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center...
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(MedPage Today) -- The Trump administration's cancellation of NIH funding for clinical trials in cancer and other diseases could have disastrous consequences for patients, according to clinicians and lawmakers who spoke at a Capitol Hill event...
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(MedPage Today) -- Education level was associated with the trajectory of cognitive decline following stroke, an individual participant data meta-analysis of four U.S. cohort studies showed.
After adjusting for pre-stroke cognition, college-educated...
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(MedPage Today) -- Patients with metal-containing joint replacements had significantly higher concentrations of cobalt in their cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) relative to patients without arthroplasties, researchers reported.
Although CSF in both groups...
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(MedPage Today) -- David Geier, a man without a medical degree who once was disciplined by the Maryland State Board of Physicians for practicing medicine without a license, reportedly will lead a new HHS study to identify whether a relationship...
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(MedPage Today) -- Research and patient care may quickly stop at 14 of the country's Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers (ADRCs) due to lack of funds.
Funding has effectively been halted at 14 of the nation's 35 ADRCs after the Trump administration...
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(MedPage Today) -- Unmarried people had a lower risk of dementia than those who were married, data from an 18-year cohort study of 24,000 older adults suggested.
In models adjusted for age and sex, never-married (HR 0.60, 95% CI 0.52-0.71), divorced...
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(MedPage Today) -- The Office of Long COVID Research and Practice will close as soon as this week, according to an internal HHS email obtained by Inside Medicine. The authenticity of the email was confirmed by a government employee familiar with...
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(MedPage Today) -- In an interview with "Fox & Friends" last week, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lauded cell phone restrictions in schools, pointing to links between social media use and anxiety and depression.
He also suggested that...
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(MedPage Today) -- GSK is partnering with the U.K. Dementia Research Institute and Health Data Research U.K. to explore possible links between the company's shingles vaccine and a reduced risk of dementia.
A cluster of 16 people were diagnosed...
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(MedPage Today) -- MedPage Today brought together three expert leaders for a virtual roundtable discussion on pediatric low-grade glioma. Moderator Jason Fangusaro, MD, of Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, is joined by Sabine Mueller...
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