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Anticholinergic medications require careful consideration of both peripheral and central effects, particularly in patients with existing cognitive impairments.

A master diagnostician identifies Horner’s Syndrome in a patient who had multiple previous workups, demonstrating the value of experienced clinical assessment in emergency medicine.

A 43-year longitudinal study of over 130,000 participants demonstrates that regular processed meat consumption accelerates cognitive aging by 1.61 years, primarily affecting language skills, executive function, and cognitive processing.

The expansion of this recall highlights the critical importance of verifying medication packaging against blister strip labeling, particularly for controlled substances where precise dosing is essential.

Only 5% of Wernicke encephalopathy cases are diagnosed before death, yet the condition is fatal in 20% of untreated patients and leads to Korsakoff syndrome in over half of survivors.