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Big Pharma's Go-To Defense of Soaring Drug Prices Doesn't Add Up
How is it that pharmaceutical companies can charge patients $100,000, $200,000, or even $500,000 a year for drugs-many of which are not even curative? Abiraterone, for...
1 day ago - The Atlantic
Effect of Physical Activity on the Quality of Life in Osteoporotic Females Living in Residential Facilities: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Background and Purpose: The study aimed to assess the effect of a program of modified Sinaki exercises and Nordic Walking on the life quality in osteoporotic and osteopenic...
1 day ago - LWW
D.C. Week: Postpartum Depression Gets Its Own Drug
Also, a novel Alzheimer's therapy deemed unready for prime time
1 day ago - MedPageToday
An Alzheimer's Drug Trial Gave Me Hope, and Then It Ended
I was a small piece in the search to find a cure. Now I feel as if I'm getting erased, and medical science doesn't have any answers.
2 days ago - NY Times - 2 articles
Antiepileptics Raise the Risk of Pneumonia in Alzheimer's
Antiepileptic drugs when used for various indications, increase the risk of pneumonia among persons with Alzheimer's disease.
2 days ago - Medindia Health
Once-Promising Alzheimer's Drug Fails in Phase III
Futility analysis prompts Biogen and Eisai to stop trials of anti-amyloid agent
3 days ago - MedPageToday - 3 articles
Biogen Halts Promising Alzheimer's Drug Trials Due to Disappointing Results
Pharmaceutical company Biogen is halting two global phase-three trials testing the once-promising Alzheimer's drug aducanumab , delivering a late-stage blow to researchers...
3 days ago - Time - 3 articles
Alzheimer's patients using antiepileptic drugs have twice the risk of pneumonia, study shows
People with Alzheimer's disease using antiepileptic drugs have twice the risk of pneumonia compared to non-users, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland shows.
3 days ago - News Medical - 4 articles
New drugs on PBS for Parkinson's, MND and Cutaneous T cell lymphoma
Under Australia's Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme , soon many of the rare diseases and their treatments are set to become cheaper.
3 days ago - News Medical
Androgen receptor plays vital role in regulating multiple mitochondrial processes
Androgens, commonly known as male hormones, stimulate prostate cancer cells to grow. Thus, many of the drugs to target that cancer focus on stopping androgen biosynthesis or...
4 days ago - News Medical
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Gait Speed and Dynamic Stability Decline Accelerates Only in Late Life: A...
Background and Purpose: Incidence of falls increases with age whereas gait speed declines. The purposes of this study were to examine (1) whether gait speed and center-of-mass...
'It gave me hope': Alzheimer's sufferer, 57, reveals heartbreak after...
Former New York Times reporter Phillip S Gutis, 57, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2016, placing him in the slim category of the four percent diagnosed before the age of 65.
Sleep Naturally Prevents The Accumulation of Alzheimer's Disease-Causing...
Sleep has been found to be metabolic cleaner for amyloid beta proteins that are usually responsible for Alzheimer's disease.
Academy of Geriatric Physical Therapy Inaugural Carole B. Lewis Lecture...
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Effect of Physical Activity on the Quality of Life in Osteoporotic Females...
Background and Purpose: The study aimed to assess the effect of a program of modified Sinaki exercises and Nordic Walking on the life quality in osteoporotic and osteopenic...
Two-Minute Step Test of Exercise Capacity: Systematic Review of Procedures...
Background and Purpose: The 2-minute step test is one of many alternatives for measuring exercise capacity. First introduced in 1999 as part of the Senior Fitness Test, the...
Dementia, Comorbidity, and Physical Function in the Program of All-Inclusive...
Background: Participants in the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly are a unique clinical population of medically complex and highly disabled older adults who qualify...
Earlier Physical Therapy Input Is Associated With a Reduced Length of...
Background and Purpose: Pressures on hospital bed occupancy in the English National Health Service have focused attention on enhanced service delivery models and methods by...
Weekly Link Love - Edition 21
Research of the Week “Thermally-abused” soybean oil promotes breast cancer progression. Big moralizing gods came after the rise of civilizations. Strong weed linked to...
VIDEO: Remember to ask cataract surgery patients about Flomax use
NEW YORK - Clark Chang, OD, MSA, MSc, FAAO, gave a talk on cataract surgery problem-solving here at Vision Expo East and said communication is a big component. He said to be...