Geriatric Medicine News

A new look at diabetes patients in the United States who use insulin and wind up in the emergency room with low blood sugar shows the dangerous scenario is more than twice as likely to happen to those over 80 years old.

Nurses from hundreds of U.S. and Canadian hospitals will be among the healthcare providers attending the annual NICHE conference April 6-8 in San Diego.

Chris Watanabe is on the cutting edge of brain research. He's not a physician or a Ph.D., but for nearly 20 years, he has been an integral part of a team at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center and Keck Medicine of USC that is exploring medicine's final frontier to help defeat Alzheimer's Disease.

If you're feeling virtuous about rigorously following a high protein, high fat, very low carbohydrate diet, T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. has a warning for you: You may be harming your body.

Current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statistics lists Alzheimer's as the sixth leading cause of death.

An elderly survivor evacuated from the disaster zone of typhoon Haiyan is wheeled past a V-22 Osprey on tarmac after arriving on a military plane at Villamor Air Base in Manila November 13, 2013.

In response to the proliferation of geriatric EDs geared specifically to patients ages 65 and older, the Emergency Nurses Association, American College of Emergency Physicians, American Geriatrics Society and Society for Academic Emergency Medicine have issued a comprehensive set of geriatric ED guidelines covering everything from staffing to ... (more)

Constantly improving patient awareness levels pertaining to infectious diseases and their subsequent diagnosis, the introduction of advanced molecular and tissue diagnostic tests for cancer such as companion diagnostics and the growing global base of geriatric population are some of the primary drivers for this market.

From the Departments of Geriatric Medicine and Cardiology , Hospital Meixoeiro, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Vigo, Vigo, Spain; Instituto de InvestigaciA3n BiomA©dica de Vigo , Vigo, Spain ; Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain ; and Department of Preventive ... (more)

Eating a high protein, low carb diet could actually make you unhealthy and more likely to die younger, a landmark Australian study has found.

The social worker will gain hands' on experience working with the geriatrics team, participate in educational conference calls, seminars and conferences, and develop a comprehensive resource manual for older patients that will provide information about support services on campus and in the community.

Intra-Cellular Therapies Announces Initiation of Phase I/II Clinical Trial for ITI-007 in Healthy Geriatric Subjects and Patients with Dementia, Including Alzheimer's Disease /PRNewswire/ -- Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc. , a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of therapeutics for central nervous system disorders, today announced ... (more)

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Broad spectrum assessment of psychopathology and adaptive functioning with the Older Adult Behavior Checklist: a validation and diagnostic discrimination study.

People over age 65 who have been hospitalized are at significantly greater risk for dementia or depression, finds a new study in General Hospital Psychiatry.

Clinicians should prescribe cholinesterase inhibitors very cautiously and suspend use if dementia symptoms aren't reduced within 12 weeks, according to new "Choosing Wisely" recommendations from the American Geriatrics Society.

This research report categorizes the European drug delivery market into oral, pulmonary, transdermal, injectable, ocular, nasal, topical, implantable, and transmucosal drug delivery.

Monmouth Medical Center recently announced two executive appointments. Sea Bright resident David McClung has been named chief financial officer for Monmouth Medical Center, and Eatontown resident Joan Wills, RN, MPA, was appointed regional assistant vice president of geriatrics.

They're called advanced glycation end products , which are proteins or lipids that when put in the presence of sugars, go through a process called glycation that makes cells stiffer and age faster.

People in their 80s are often prescribed drugs to ward off a stroke when the risk of a stroke is not that high and the drugs have other side effects, finds a perspective published online in Evidence Based Medicine .