Geriatrics News

• SABCS 2018New Toxicity Tool: One Oncologist's Dream, Realized A recently deceased geriatric oncologist helped create a new tool for assessing toxicity risk in older breast cancer patients.
  Medscape Medical News, December 2018
• IVC Filters May Increase Mortality Risk in Patients With PE Use of inferior vena cava (IVC) filters was associated with a slightly increased risk for death in older adults with acute pulmonary embolism (PE), a retrospective study found.
  Medscape Medical News, December 2018
• High-Performing Centenarians Have Increased T Cell Telomere Length and Telomerase Activity Telomere length and telomerase activity following stimulation are greater in T cells of high-performing centenarians than in low-performing centenarians, researchers report.
  Reuters Health Information, December 2018
• Almost Half of Americans to Skip Flu Shot This Year Top reasons cited for not getting vaccinated include a lack of confidence in the flu vaccine, concern about side effects from the vaccine, or just thinking they will not get the flu.
  Medscape Medical News, December 2018
• Do Guidelines Underestimate the Harms of Statins? A modeling study provides new fodder for the argument that fewer Americans should be taking statins to reduce the risk for heart disease than guidelines recommend.
  Medscape Medical News, December 2018
• Eczema Rates Rise With Age Among Adults, Study Finds Atopic dermatitis rates rise with age among adults in primary care, a study found. The data provide new information about the epidemiology of the disorder after childhood, the researchers say.
  Medscape Medical News, December 2018
• RSNA 2018Older Women Benefit From Mammograms Past Age 75 Mammography is accurate in older women, who can be successfully treated after an early diagnosis of breast cancer, new research shows. Guidelines need to be updated, according to one expert.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• Brain Imaging May Help Predict Dementia Years Before Symptoms Diffusion-weighted magnetic-resonance imaging (MRI) can help identify older adults who will go on to develop Alzheimer's disease, according to new research.
  Reuters Health Information, November 2018
• Benzodiazepines Plus Opioids, Common Combo in Alzheimer's Benzodiazepines and opioids are frequently coprescribed for patients with Alzheimer's disease, putting them at increased risk for osteoporosis, falls, and fractures.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• Neurofilament Light Protein Strongly Predicts Cognitive Decline Increases in levels of neurofilament light protein in the cerebrospinal fluid are a better marker of early neurologic deterioration than increases in either tau or amyloid, a new study suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• Untreated Hearing Loss Linked to Higher Health Costs, More Hospitalizations Older adults with untreated hearing loss may develop additional health problems that lead to more frequent hospitalizations and higher health costs than their counterparts without hearing trouble, two U.S. studies suggest.
  Reuters Health Information, November 2018
• Older Drivers Taking Multiple Medications Could Be at Higher Risk of Accidents Many older drivers are taking multiple medications that may increase the risk of car crashes, a new U.S. study released today suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, November 2018
• AHA 2018EWTOPIA75: Ezetimibe Reduced First Cardiac Events in Seniors Japanese patients 75 years and older benefited from this lipid-lowering therapy for the primary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular events.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• Food Aid Reduces Hardship, 'Boosts Diabetes Meds Adherence' Taking part in a food aid program to reduce financial hardship may allow older patients with diabetes to better afford their medications and so reduce cost-related nonadherence, say US researchers.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• Do You Deprescribe? Polypharmacy is becoming more common, especially among older patients.
  Medscape Reader Polls, November 2018
• Mediterranean Diet Tied to Reduced Alzheimer's Pathology Adherence to the Mediterranean diet is significantly associated with a reduction over time in beta-amyloid accumulation, a biomarker of cerebral Alzheimer's disease pathology, new research suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• Frailty Independent Risk Factor for Bleeding in AMI Making a formal diagnosis of frailty is 'critical' in older myocardial infarction patients managed invasively so that bleeding-avoidance strategies can be implemented, researchers say.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• Social Isolation Directly Affects Health, Ups Risk of Death Social isolation predicts all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality in both sexes and in blacks and whites, and also predicts cancer-related mortality in white men and women.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• Checkpoint Inhibition and Cardiotoxicity: Cause for Concern? A pharmacovigilance study reports four new cardiotoxicities in patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors. Experts say this should not deter physicians from offering these treatments to patients.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• PCOS 2018Cancer Pain Control App Works -- Palliative Care for Everyone? Dramatically improved artificial intelligence holds promise for making palliative care services available anywhere, anytime for patients with advanced cancer pain.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018