How to Convince Your Parent to Move to Assisted Living

Conventional wisdom says that we all want to stay in our own homes for as long as we can. That is likely...


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How do age, sex, hormones and genetics affect dementia biomarkers in the blood?

A new study has found important clues about the roles age, sex, hormonal changes and genetics play in how certain biomarkers for dementia are expressed in the blood, according to a new study.


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Lone Star Limitations – Texas Further Narrows the Use of Non-Competes with Medical Professionals

Key Takeaways On June 20, 2025, Texas enacted S.B.1318, which limits the scope of non-compete agreements applicable to licensed physicians and now, other “health care professionals.”  The law builds upon existing limitations for non-competes under Texas law, by further narrowing time and geographic limitations for practitioners, and it caps the existing buyout provision at a... Continue Reading


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Integrative approach reveals promising candidates for Alzheimer's disease risk factors or targets for therapeutic intervention

A new study provides solutions to the pressing need to identify factors that influence Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk or resistance while providing an avenue to explore potential biological markers and therapeutic targets. The researchers integrated computational and functional approaches that enabled them to identify not only specific genes whose alterations predicted increased AD risk in humans and behavioral impairments in AD fruit fly models but also showed that reversing the gene changes has a neuroprotective effect in living organisms.


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Mother’s Decision to Refuse Potential Dialysis Worries Daughter

Dear Carol: I moved my 76-year-old mother in with me after her early memory loss diagnosis. Mom has multiple health problems, but...


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