Neurology
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A new and completely different pain medicine
Patients assigned to the highest dose of VX-548 had a statistically significant lower cumulative amount of pain in the 48 hours after surgery.
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Daily aspirin for stroke prevention in healthy elderly should be avoided
Data from a large randomized trial suggest that aspirin increases bleeding risk and is ineffective for primary stroke prevention in the elderly....
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New Alzheimer’s drugs: Setting realistic expectations
Most patients living with Alzheimer’s disease will not qualify for treatment with these drugs, and those who do may suffer serious side effects....
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Cognitive benefit of highly touted MIND diet questioned
“Although we did not see a specific effect of the MIND diet, people in both groups improved their cognitive function.”
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U.S. states, counties with highest Alzheimer’s prevalence rates identified
“These new findings could help physicians treating or caring for minority populations “understand the landscape of what the disease looks like.”...
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Smartwatches able to detect very early signs of Parkinson’s
With these results we could develop a valuable screening tool to aid in the early detection of Parkinson's," one of the investigators said.
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Coffee’s brain-boosting effect goes beyond caffeine
Researchers investigated the neurobiological impact of coffee drinking on brain connectivity using resting-state functional MRI.
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Long COVID ‘brain fog’ confounds doctors, but new research offers hope
Brain fog is among the most common symptoms of long COVID, and also one of the most poorly understood.