Thrombectomy Led to Fewer Deaths in Patients With Acute Stroke and a Large Infarct LASTE trial builds on previous evidence favoring thrombectomy even in high-risk cases May 08, 2024
RFK Jr.'s Brain Worm; Cancer From Your Car? Hearing Restored in Two Kids Health news and commentary gathered by staff May 08, 2024
Unmasking the 'Lost' Mental Health Generation Many adults have been retrospectively diagnosed with autism, ADHD, and bipolar disorder May 07, 2024
Dementia and Terminal Lucidity; Neuropathy After COVID; FDA Sets Donanemab Meeting News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience May 07, 2024
I Didn't Truly Understand Opioid Addiction Until It Killed My Son Despite being a doctor, I learned too late that substance use disorder is a treatable disease May 07, 2024
Alzheimer's Variant May Cause Distinct Form of the Disease Almost all APOE4 homozygotes develop Alzheimer's disease May 06, 2024
Dementia Mortality Tied to Olive Oil Consumption Results appear to be independent of overall diet quality May 06, 2024
With Help From AI, Randy Travis Got His Voice Back After Debilitating Stroke Here's how country singer's first song post-stroke came to be May 06, 2024
What if States Paid People to Stop Using Drugs and Smoking? This underutilized strategy has proven effective May 04, 2024
Alzheimer's Biomarkers Linked With Plasma Leptin Levels Over 2 years, lower baseline leptin was tied to a greater increase in tau May 03, 2024
Investigational FSHD Drug Did Little to Change DUX4 Expression Losmapimod was associated with small improvements in fat infiltration, upper arm function May 02, 2024
NYC Doc Arrested in Protest; Ozzy Osbourne's Stem Cell Tx; Metformin and COVID Health news and commentary gathered by staff May 02, 2024
Narcan May Have Moved Over-the-Counter, but It’s Still Underutilized The potential of this lifesaving medicine will only be achieved if it is truly accessible to all May 01, 2024
Cognitively Healthy Centenarians; Seizures and COVID Vax; New AAN Statement News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience Apr 30, 2024
CDC: Premature Mortality for Top Causes of Death Higher in Rural Areas Death rate vs urban areas continues to widen for cancer, heart disease, lung disease, and stroke Apr 30, 2024
Age-Related Somatic Mutations Implicated in Cardiovascular Death Clonal hematopoiesis a red flag for people with asymptomatic carotid atherosclerosis Apr 29, 2024
CDC: Hunters Didn't Die of Deer Disease; Missed Bird Flu Cases? Sexsomnia Explainer Health news and commentary gathered by staff Apr 29, 2024
Consequences of Afib; Autism Heritability in Males and Females Also in TTHealthWatch: antipsychotics and dementia Apr 27, 2024 podcast
Closing Gender-Based Disease Disparities Starts in the Lab Women must have a seat at the table in deciding what type of research to pursue Apr 27, 2024
Dementia May Be Underdiagnosed in States With Motor Vehicle Reporting Mandates Study attempts to assess unintended consequences of clinician reporting policies Apr 26, 2024
What's Behind a Woman's 43-Year History of Drug-Resistant Epilepsy? Seizures were triggered by exposure to cold due to reflex epilepsy Apr 26, 2024
Cause of Missouri Doc's Death; NBA Star's Bell's Palsy; Huge Data Breach at Kaiser Health news and commentary gathered by staff Apr 26, 2024
Warning Letters Safely Lowered Antipsychotic Prescribing in Dementia Agitation, reactive behaviors remained steady while quetiapine prescribing was reduced Apr 25, 2024
COVID Vaccine Study Finds Small Signal of Seizure Risk in Young Kids Data largely reassuring, but seizure finding requires further evaluation, experts say Apr 24, 2024
New Targeted Drug Approved for Low-Grade Glioma in Kids First systemic therapy for pediatric patients with BRAF rearrangements Apr 23, 2024
Long COVID Taste Loss May Not Involve Taste Buds Study attempts to untangle taste and olfactory dysfunction 1 year after infection Apr 23, 2024
Alzheimer's Drug Skepticism; Safeguarding Brain Data; Benefits of Stimulating Jobs News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience Apr 23, 2024
From Neurointerventional Radiologist to 'Grey's Anatomy' Sonographer A Q&A with a physician who got a taste of Hollywood Apr 23, 2024
Novel Drug Made of Gold Nanocrystals Appears Safe in Multiple Sclerosis Small study suggested benefits for MS patients with chronic optic neuropathy Apr 22, 2024
Neurotechnology Development Must Be Slow and Steady The burgeoning field holds both promise and risks Apr 22, 2024
Paxlovid and COVID; Breast Cancer and Lymph Node Removal Also in TTHealthWatch: pragmatic model for chronic kidney disease Apr 20, 2024 podcast
Multiple Sclerosis Predicted by Autoantibody Signature Blood samples reveal signs of MS years before clinical diagnosis Apr 19, 2024
Novel Treatment Appears to Show Benefit in ALS Ciprofloxacin and celecoxib formulation aims to target several ALS mechanisms Apr 18, 2024
Ocrelizumab Trial Fills Research Gap for Black, Hispanic MS Patients Half of patients had no evidence of disease activity at 48 weeks Apr 18, 2024
Antipsychotics in Dementia Tied to Wider Range of 'Serious Harms' Steepest increases in risk observed for pneumonia, kidney injury, VTE, and stroke Apr 17, 2024
Alzheimer's Agitation Relapse Delayed With Dextromethorphan-Bupropion Data suggest clinical response with few adverse effects for patients Apr 17, 2024
Why an ALS Drug Was Pulled From the Market Topline data show where sodium phenylbutyrate and taurursodiol fell short Apr 17, 2024
No New Safety Signals Seen With Migraine Prevention Drug At 48 weeks, atogepant showed consistent safety profile and efficacy Apr 16, 2024
Only One Harm From mRNA COVID Vaccines, Report Determines Independent reviewers reject causal links to infertility, myocardial infarction, stroke Apr 16, 2024
Possible Pulmonary Benefit With Viltolarsen for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Exon-skipping therapy was well-tolerated, phase II data showed Apr 16, 2024
