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The incidence of epileptic seizures is much higher in elderly patients with Alzheimer's disease than those who are elderly but non-demented.
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REM behavior disorder can be reliably diagnosed using a simple bed-partner questionnaire and its presence is a risk factor for a future neurodegenerative disease.
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Preliminary trials of low-dose intranasal insulin suggest a possible benefit that warrants further investigation.
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Statins and diabetes risk; new treatment guideline for diabetes; new pertussis vaccine recommendation; antibiotics and rhinosinusitis; fluoroquinolones and cystitis; and FDA actions.
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Necrotizing myositis is a newly described inflammatory myopathy that has an autoimmune etiology and may be associated with anti-signal recognition particle autoantibodies.
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In a post-hoc analysis, rasagiline, as an adjunct to levodopa, is both efficacious in reducing "off" time and well-tolerated in individuals older than 70 years with moderate-to-advanced Parkinson's disease.
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Antihypertensive treatment reduces the incidence of headache compared to placebo, but the magnitude of the effect differs between drug classes independent of the magnitude of blood pressure reduction. Dysautoregulation in the anterior and posterior circulation is associated with migraine with aura.
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When a brain biopsy is being considered for a nonmalignant condition, the patients and the site of biopsy must be carefully selected to ensure the most useful results.
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This study presents a large group of new cases of rhombencephalosynapsis and carefully describes correlations to other associated morphological abnormalities as well as to outcomes.
