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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

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Anna Chodos is a geriatrician at UCSF and the Principal Investigator of Dementia Care Aware, a California-wide program to improve the detection of dementia in older adults who have Medi-Cal benefits. There has to be effective support provided behind any type of screening strategy in order for it to truly be effective. Soo 00:32 Thanks.

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Not Only Harvard. RFK Jr.’s Slashed Science Funding Cuts Across States That Backed Trump

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in 2022, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Those changes — plus the firing of 1,200 agency employees as part of mass layoffs across the government — are alarming scientists and NIH workers, who warn that they will undermine progress in combating diseases and other threats to the nation’s public health.