In the confirmatory trial, Clarity AD, of 1,795 patients with early AD, findings showed a reduction of dementia scoring of 27% vs. placebo. These findings were seen as early as 6 months.

Folic acid (B9) prescription in a population of more than 800,000 individuals, yielded a suicide event rate of 4.73 per 100 000 person-months, compared with a rate of 10.61 per 100 000 person-months without folic acid.

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Nearly 20,000 mother-child pairs were tracked over a median follow-up of 4 years. After adjusting for maternal risk factors and their children’s own ultra-processed food intake, physical activity, and sedentary time, maternal consumption of ultra-processed foods during the child-rearing period was associated with overweight or obesity in offspring with a 26% higher risk in the group with the highest maternal ultra-processed food consumption.

A coming 8.5% cut in Medicare payments for surgery may be the proverbial straw in an already stressed system of surgical training, leading some to abandon their commitment to medicine.

Researchers have identified a small molecule, named as SHP656, that can target the brain’s clock proteins and may prove effective for treating glioblastoma.