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Friday, November 11Mild cognitive impairment: to treat or not to treat.
In this paper, the authors discuss the results of three clinical trials of various drug therapies used to prevent or delay deterioration in patients with mild cognitive impairmentMORE: Entrez PubMed
Thursday, November 10The Many Faces of Secondary OsteoporosisNPR AUDIO: Studies have found that a six-month Iyengar yoga program helped Alzheimer's patientsB.K.S. Iyengar, the yoga master, who some say is responsible for popularizing yoga in America, discusses the benefits of the ancient art with NPR's Allison Aubrey. CLICK TO LISTEN TO AUDIO Wednesday, November 9When Experts Need Experts - New York TimesMORE- New York Times: "Between them, Robert and Rosalie Kane, he a physician and she a social worker, have devoted 60 years to the study of aging, written scores of books and hundreds of journal articles about long-term care and are widely considered among the world's leading experts. Robert and Rosalie Kane, longtime gerontologists, struggled to care for his mother and her father. Presumably, that would make them better prepared than most of us to care for frail elderly parents, a rite of passage that most of America's 77 million baby boomers will eventually experience, if they haven't already, with all its heartache and hardship.But expertise is no match for the harsh particulars of old age, and what the Kanes and other experts consider a broken long-term care system. Thus the couple, both professors at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, were just as flummoxed as the next person when confronted with the day-to-day reality of tending to their own parents" Nearly 45 million Americans provide unpaid care to an adult relative, and nearly twice that many expect to take on that responsibilityGroup exercise class improves older adults' balanceRelatives Claim Surrogate Role for Alzheimer's Informed ConsentTuesday, November 8Preliminary Data From Phase III Trial Show Lucentis Is the First Investigational Therapy to Demonstrate Clinical Benefit Over Visudyne In
Approximately 95 Percent of Patients Treated with Lucentis Maintained or Improved Vision at One Yearmore- Head-to-Head Study Of Patients With Wet AMD
Monday, November 7Even among the oldest of the elderly, bone densitometry and treatment of those with osteoporosis is worthwhileSound Medicine: Exercise and Cognitive Function
MORE..University of Illinois: "A new study published in the British medical journal Lancet offers more evidence that people who exercise in middle age are far less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia when they are older."
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