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Medical Notes: July 3, 2022

>> July 3, 2022

New insights on fragile X syndrome Why have experimental therapies for fragile X syndrome not worked? Fragile X is a protein that controls how certain neurons process information. When that protein is eliminated due to a genetic mutation, a person is …

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Medical Notes: February 27, 2022

>> February 27, 2022

Another reason to trust your gut Why should we trust our gut? Because it knows the difference between real and fake sugar, even when we don’t. A new paper in Nature Neuroscience reports our gut releases different chemicals depending on what type of sugar we …

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Medical Notes: February 13, 2022

>> February 13, 2022

FDA-approved drug could help prevent memory loss in Alzheimer’s patients A drug that’s already been FDA-approved could help prevent memory loss in Alzheimer’s patients. Doctors use the drug atomoxetine (Strattera) for ADHD patients, but a new …

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Medical Notes: November 28, 2021

>> November 28, 2021

Now there are two new pills that can prevent people from getting severely ill after contracting Covid-19. Researchers say the more recently announced drug, from Pfizer, is 89% effective at cutting the risk of death and hospitalization… while the first, from …

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Medical Notes: November 14, 2021

>> November 14, 2021

Major surgeries, such as heart bypass, may increase the risk of dementia. A study in the journal JAMA Neurology finds that blood levels of a protein that’s highly predictive of Alzheimer’s disease rise markedly during major surgery…and remain …

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Medical Notes: September 26, 2021

>> September 26, 2021

Coming back from a concussion may take twice as long as we thought. A large study in the journal Sports Medicine finds that only half of concussions resolve within 14 days… the period athletes used to be benched for a concussion. Apparently, 28 days is more …

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Medical Notes: Week of January 26, 2020

>> January 26, 2020

Cancer death rates have made the biggest one-year drop ever recorded. A new report from the American Cancer Society finds that in 2017, the overall cancer death rate dropped more than 2%—thanks in large part to a decline in lung cancer deaths. Since they …

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Medical Notes: Week of October 6, 2019

>> October 6, 2019

About a quarter of people who develop the brain plaques of Alzheimer’s disease apparently can compensate for the deficit, and don’t develop symptoms such as dementia. Now scientists are developing a drug that could help boost those compensatory mechanisms. The …

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Medical Notes: Week of January 27, 2019

>> January 27, 2019

A drinkable cocktail of designer molecules is showing promise in stopping the development of dementia. A study in the journal Cell Reports finds that a cocktail based on an old antibiotic can keep amyloid beta peptides from binding to prion proteins—one of the …

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