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Category: Geriatric medicine

Alzheimer’s disease: What treatments could be rolled out in the next few years?

What drugs have been evaluated this year?This year the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), the […]

November 9, 2024 Geriatric medicine

Lecanemab: European drug agency reȷects Alzheimer’s drug amid debate over efficacy and safety

The European Medicines Agency has rejected a marketing authorisation request for the Alzheimer’s disease drug lecanemab, stating that […]

July 30, 2024 Geriatric medicine

Generalist skills are vital to serve ageing population, says England’s CMO

Doctors should “recommit to maintaining generalist skills” as they specialise so they can “respond to the inexorable rise […]

November 10, 2023 Geriatric medicine

Donanemab leads to modest slowing of Alzheimer’s progression, study finds

The Alzheimer’s disease treatment donanemab leads to a modest slowdown in cognitive decline in the early stages of […]

July 18, 2023 Geriatric medicine

David Oliver: Social care plan furthers inequality and unfairness

In my last column I discussed the lack of detail or meaningful change in the government’s Build Back […]

September 22, 2021 Geriatric medicine

Four in 10 dementia cases could be prevented or delayed by targeting risk factors, report says

Around 40% of dementia cases worldwide could have potentially been delayed or prevented if 12 risk factors had […]

August 3, 2020 Geriatric medicine
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