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Antipsychotics linked to accumulation of hospital days in persons with Alzheimer’s disease
People with Alzheimer’s disease who used antipsychotic drugs had a higher number of accumulated hospital days than people with Alzheimer’s
Continue reading »Trio win medicine Nobel for work on how cells adapt to oxygen
Three researchers from the US and Britain on Monday shared the Nobel Medicine Prize for discoveries on how cells sense
Continue reading »Team discovers one more piece to the autism puzzle
Mutations in a subunit of a receptor that binds the major inhibitory neurotransmitter GABAA in the brain have been linked,
Continue reading »Australian trial halves number of tuberculosis cases
Annual community-wide screening for tuberculosis almost halves the number of cases of the deadly disease, a four-year study by Australian
Continue reading »An advance for drug-eluting contact lenses: Delivery to the back of the eye
Drug-eluting contact lenses, which gradually release drugs into the eye, offer a promising alternative to daily eye drops, which can
Continue reading »Low blood pressure could be a culprit in dementia, studies suggest
Decline in brain function often occurs as people age. People often worry that declining brain function is an inevitable part
Continue reading »Treatment with long term, low dose antibiotic could help people born with chronic lung condition
Taking a low dose of the antibiotic azithromycin for six months reduces symptoms for patients with the chronic lung condition
Continue reading »Cerebral reperfusion of reading network predicts recovery of reading ability after stroke
A team of New Jersey stroke researchers has linked recovery of reading and language competence with cerebral blood flow in
Continue reading »For the first time, researcher observes crystallized iron product, hemozoin, made in mammals
Most people have some idea of how important iron is to their health, but Iqbal Hamza, professor in Animal and
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