Doctiplus - We are allways here!
There’s a belief so common it barely gets questioned anymore: that dementia is simply what happens if you live long enough, a roll of the genetic dice nobody can do much about. It’s the same fatalism I’ve spent two decades…
Football has a ghost that never quite leaves the sport, and its name is Mike Webster. The Hall of Fame center died in 2002 at fifty, living out of his truck by the end, and the pathologist who examined his…
Fewer Medicare beneficiaries are getting home health care than in years past, and a new research brief from the Commonwealth Fund lays out why in more detail than most families ever see. The short version: it isn’t one problem. It’s…
Stroke survivors are gaining years of life faster than the general population, according to a new study published this month in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, though a substantial gap in life expectancy still separates the two groups.…
Most stories about the gut microbiome want to sort its trillions of residents into two tidy camps, the good bacteria and the bad ones, heroes and villains living in the same intestinal neighborhood. A large new Swedish study complicates that…
Stress and alcohol have always had a complicated relationship. A drink takes the edge off a bad day, at least for a few hours, which is exactly why so many people reach for one when things get hard. A new…
If a parent or spouse has had what doctors call a lacunar stroke, the treatment plan probably looked familiar. An aspirin, maybe a statin, the standard playbook built around clearing blocked arteries. New research out of the University of Edinburgh…
