Geriatrics News

• AASLD 2019Novel Procedure May Help Improve Metabolic Disease Improvements in HbA1c and NASH biomarker favored the procedure over sham procedure in first-ever randomized, double-blind prospective study.
  Medscape Medical News, November 11, 2019
• Lonely Heart Patients More Likely to Die Within Year of Leaving Hospital Patients hospitalized for heart problems may be at greater risk of dying within a year of discharge when they live alone or feel lonely, a Danish study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, November 07, 2019
• During Deep Sleep, the Brain Does Housekeeping During deep sleep, the brain may be tidying up the detritus that accumulates during a hard day of thinking, a recent study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, November 07, 2019
• Geriatric Factors Improve Performance of Surgical Risk Calculator in Older Patients The addition of six geriatric-specific risk factors improves the predictive performance of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) Surgical Risk Calculator (SRC) in older patients, researchers report.
  Reuters Health Information, November 07, 2019
• Aducanumab About-Face: Experts Weigh In There's mixed reaction among Alzheimer experts following the recent announcement by the drug company Biogen that it will pursue regulatory approval of its investigational drug aducanumab after all.
  Medscape Medical News, November 07, 2019
• Dying for a Better Life: South Koreans Fake Their Funerals for Life Lessons A South Korean service is offering free funerals - but only to the living.
  Reuters Health Information, November 06, 2019
• Changes in Walking Predict Death and Disability Increased randomness in motor fluctuations may predict frailty, disability, and death in the elderly, a study found.
  Medscape Medical News, November 04, 2019
• Smell Test, Cognitive Screen Combo May Help Rule Out Dementia A combination of brief memory and smell tests helped identify almost 97% of people in a study who did not progress to AD over time.
  Medscape Medical News, November 01, 2019
• Better Sleep Means Better Early-Morning Mobility in Parkinson's Disease Improved measures of sleep quality are associated with a shorter duration of low early-morning mobility in patients with Parkinson's disease, researchers from Japan report.
  Reuters Health Information, October 31, 2019
• Practitioners' Flawed Decision-Making Tied to Fatality Rates in Trauma Despite efforts to boost quality, variation in triage patterns persists, with many severely injured patients being treated at nontrauma centers, according to a new study.
  Reuters Health Information, October 31, 2019
• Aspirin May Decrease Intracranial Aneurysm Growth The benefits of low-dose aspirin for patients with CVD are well established. A retrospective review suggests it may also decrease the growth rate of brain aneurysms.
  Medscape Medical News, October 31, 2019
• Positive Attitudes Toward CBD Use in Pregnancy "Concerning"
  Reuters Health Information, October 31, 2019
• Sad, Shocking: Inquiry Finds Australia Neglects Older People An inquiry into Australia's providers of care for the elderly has found they fail to adequately look after the country's old and vulnerable citizens, in a scathing assessment of the industry.
  Reuters Health Information, October 31, 2019
• Gray-Scale US Predicts RA Damage, but Clinical Use Unclear Synovitis seen on gray-scale ultrasound (US) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis predicted joint damage progression more accurately than power Doppler US, even in those taking biological DMARDs, a study found.
  Medscape Medical News, October 31, 2019
• Deaths From HF Climbing Rapidly as Elderly Population Expands Recent improvements in heart disease mortality may hide more worrisome trends, such as an 'explosion' in heart failure deaths that tracks with disproportionate growth in the 65-and-older age group.
  Medscape Medical News, October 30, 2019
• U.S. Sanctions on Iran Threaten Access to Certain Medicines -Report U.S. sanctions on Iran threaten access by some Iranians to medicines that treat some diseases such as cancer and epilepsy despite exemptions in the measures for imports of humanitarian goods, a report said on Tuesday.
  Reuters Health Information, October 29, 2019
• Oral Vancomycin Prevents C Diff Infection in High-Risk Inpatients Oral vancomycin prophylaxis can prevent healthcare-facility-onset C. difficile infection (HCFO-CDI) in high-risk patients receiving systemic antibiotic therapy, according to results from an open-label randomized study.
  Reuters Health Information, October 29, 2019
• Immunotherapy Appears Safe, Effective in Elderly With Lung Cancer Immunotherapy appears to be safe and effective for treating non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in older people, researchers from Italy report.
  Reuters Health Information, October 28, 2019
• 'Spike' Detection Program Promising to Diagnose Epilepsy on EEG The program, called SpikeNet, was developed by analyzing multiple expert opinions on thousands of EEG readings and shows better diagnostic accuracy than individual human experts.
  Medscape Medical News, October 28, 2019
• Half of Surgical Residents Report Mistreatment More frequent exposure to discrimination, abuse, and harassment may explain higher burnout rates among female general surgery residents.
  October 28, 2019