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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: August 22, 2013
Major finding: When treated with early thrombolysis, patients with mild stroke symptoms were 51% more likely to have a 3-month modified Rankin Sca...
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: August 21, 2013
Major finding: Children and young people who started antipsychotic medication were three times more likely to develop type 2 diabetes within 1 yea...
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: August 16, 2013
Major finding: A program designed to support the caregivers of Alzheimer’s disease patients decreased emergency room visits by 40% over a 6-...
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: August 15, 2013
Major finding: Temporoparietal cortical thickness identified significantly more patients with early- and atypical-onset dementia than did hippocam...
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: August 14, 2013
Major finding: Over 22 years, the number of prostate cancers stage T3 or higher fell by 85%, while the number with a Gleason score of 8 or higher ...
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: August 9, 2013
Major finding: The tau/Abeta42 ratio had a diagnostic accuracy of 91% for discriminating frontotemporal dementia from Alzheimer’s and 72% fo...
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: August 8, 2013
Major finding: Donepezil users performed the best on the 11-item ADAS-Cog total score, with a statistically significant 1.4-point increase.
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: August 6, 2013
Major finding: Eighteen states and the U.S.
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: August 1, 2013
Major finding: Individuals who performed aerobic exercises had a significant increase of about 2 points from baseline on a composite measure of ex...
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: August 1, 2013
Major finding: The poorer-outcome groups were significantly more likely to worry about their condition than was the good-outcome group (moderate o...
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: July 31, 2013
Major finding: Compared with the children with epilepsy alone, the brains of children with newly diagnosed epilepsy and comorbid anxiety showed si...
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: July 29, 2013
Major finding: Pimavanserin improved symptoms of Parkinson’s disease psychosis by 37%, compared with a 14% improvement for placebo, without ...
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: July 26, 2013
Major finding: For patients with mild cognitive impairment, every 1% increase in the rate of whole brain atrophy during a single year was associat...
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: July 22, 2013
Major finding: More than half of adults with childhood generalized epilepsies had at least one problematic social issue.Data source: The Nova Scot...
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: July 17, 2013
Major finding: The results of in vivo tau tangle PET imaging with [F-18]T808 in a patient diagnosed with Alzheimer’s were later confirmed in...
