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Early diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease by targeting toxic soluble A? oligomers

Medical Xpress

This figure is expected to almost double every 20 years, reaching 78 million in 2030 and 139 million in 2050. trillion by 2030. More than 55 million people worldwide were living with Alzheimer's disease in 2020, according to Alzheimer's Disease International. trillion and anticipated to rise to $2.8

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Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

GeriPal

When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. What are the risks and rewards of new classes of medications? When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. How high is too high?

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Colorectal Cancer in Younger Individuals & The Importance of Hereditary Cancer Testing 

Myriad Genetics

Further, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association , colorectal cancer is estimated to become the leading cause of cancer-related deaths among younger adults (ages 20 to 49) in the United States by 2030. The cancer had come back and was not responding to the same treatment as his initial diagnosis. Today, J.J.

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Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

GeriPal

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

We would drill down on the tenth differential diagnosis of medium vessel vasculitis, and then we would discharge them back out to the streets. Why was I spending all this time figuring out the detailed differential diagnosis of these obscure diseases when we weren’t actually attending to what people really needed? Eric: Oh, wow.