Caregiver Asks If It’s Wise for Parents to Change Medicare Plans

Dear Carol: My mother is incredibly healthy for an 83-year-old. She takes no medication other than occasional OTC pain relief or something for...


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This protective enzyme could help stop fatty liver disease from getting worse

Scientists have identified an enzyme that may act as a natural defense against the worsening of fatty liver disease, which affects an estimated 100 million Americans. The enzyme, called UBE2N, helps liver cells clear away damaged mitochondria and break down fat, potentially preventing the inflammation, scarring, and cell damage associated with the more dangerous condition MASH.


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Your gut may be making a molecule that raises Alzheimer’s risk

Scientists have linked a gut bacterial compound called ImP to greater Alzheimer’s risk, harmful brain protein buildup, and faster cognitive decline. The finding raises the possibility that reducing ImP in the blood could one day help slow or prevent dementia.


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Consumers Know a Copy When They See One. Does Trademark Law?

Today’s consumers can spot a copy. Trademark law, however, is still largely built around a different question: are consumers confused? That tension sits at the center of New Balance Athletics, Inc. v. Decathlon America LLC. In its recently filed complaint, New Balance asserts claims for trademark infringement and false designation of origin, both of which generally require a likelihood of consumer confusion, as well as dilution of its allegedly famous “N” mark, which does not....
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Helping vs. Enabling: How to Strike a Balance While Caregiving

Most family caregivers want what is best for their loved ones, and they’ll do whatever it takes to make that happen. Unfortunately,...


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Common supplements rival antibiotics for severe gum disease

Omega-3 and low-dose aspirin matched the effectiveness of antibiotics in a year-long study of patients with severe gum disease, with both approaches helping about 58% reach the treatment goal. The unexpected result could point to a new way to treat some patients while reducing reliance on antibiotics and the growing problem of antibiotic resistance.


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This diet may slow brain aging by 2.5 years

People who followed the MIND diet more closely showed slower brain shrinkage and less grey matter loss over time, with the strongest differences equivalent to about 2.5 years of delayed brain aging. Berries and poultry were linked with healthier brain changes, while sweets and fried fast foods were associated with greater tissue loss.


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This diet may slow brain aging by 2.5 years

People who followed the MIND diet more closely showed slower brain shrinkage and less grey matter loss over time, with the strongest differences equivalent to about 2.5 years of delayed brain aging. Berries and poultry were linked with healthier brain changes, while sweets and fried fast foods were associated with greater tissue loss.


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Key Takeaways and Access to Webinar Recording – From Prompt to Proof: Investigating and Litigating Trade-Secret Theft in the Age of AI

As part of Seyfarth’s 2026 Trade Secrets Webinar Series, our panel presented From Prompt to Proof: Investigating and Litigating Trade-Secret Theft in the Age of AI, exploring how artificial intelligence is transforming the way organizations create, use, protect, investigate, and litigate trade secrets. Jesse Coleman and Gio Perez of Seyfarth Shaw LLP, together with Jim... Continue Reading


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Too much light at night may quietly reshape your heart

Nighttime light exposure was linked to thicker, stiffer heart chambers and early signs of reduced heart function in a study of more than 11,000 people. The findings suggest that keeping bedrooms darker could be an overlooked strategy for protecting the heart.


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Alzheimer’s risk gene APOE4 may have a reversible weakness

The Alzheimer’s risk gene APOE4 may actively damage brain blood vessels and sabotage the cellular systems that remove harmful proteins. Researchers were able to reverse some of these effects in experiments, revealing promising new targets for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and other neurodegenerative diseases.


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1 in 13 adults under 30 already had hidden artery plaque

More than half of 16,000 apparently healthy adults had signs of atherosclerosis, with arterial plaques already detectable in about 1 in 13 people ages 18 to 29. Researchers say directly imaging the arteries could reveal hidden cardiovascular disease years or even decades before symptoms appear.


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Humor Shared Among Caregivers Is Therapeutic

I once visited a caregiver friend and her mother, who had moderate Alzheimer’s disease. At one point during the visit, the mother...


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Breakthrough drug reverses skin aging and dramatically speeds healing

A topical drug that removes aging, damaged cells helped older mice heal skin wounds significantly faster. The treatment appeared to reactivate repair pathways involved in inflammation, collagen production, and new blood vessel growth.


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Judge Won’t Stand for Being Jerked Around

In case you weren't sure.


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Changing Bedding and Protecting Furniture Challenges Alzheimer’s Caregivers

Dear Carol: My dad has had Alzheimer’s for seven years and is currently in the later stages. We looked at memory care,...


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A longer exhale may push your brain toward bolder decisions

Slow breathing with a prolonged exhale made people more willing to take risks by changing heart activity and increasing the brain’s sensitivity to rewards. The findings suggest that something as simple as controlling your breath can directly influence how you evaluate choices.


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Webinar: Protections Beyond Non-Competes

Thursday, October 15, 20261:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Eastern12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Central11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Mountain10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Pacific REGISTER HERE About the Program As employers face increasing restrictions on the use and enforceability of non-compete agreements, organizations must evaluate alternative strategies for protecting their confidential information, trade secrets, customer... Continue Reading


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Scientists found a surprising driver of Alzheimer’s outside the brain

Scientists found that immune cells contributing to Alzheimer’s-related brain damage may be activated in lymph nodes outside the brain before traveling into the nervous system. Blocking this pathway in mice dramatically reduced neurodegeneration and preserved cognitive abilities, pointing to a potentially more accessible treatment target.


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Why Does My Elderly Loved One Sleep All Day?

As people age, they tend to sleep more lightly than when they were younger. Waking up during the night due to achy...


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A New Era of Health Care Noncompetes: Emerging Models and the Future of Labor Mobility

For more than a decade, health care noncompete legislation largely focused on a familiar target: physician restrictive covenants. That paradigm is rapidly disappearing. Across the country, legislatures are no longer asking simply whether physician noncompetes should be enforceable. Instead, states are adopting increasingly diverse regulatory frameworks that address workforce mobility, market concentration, patient access, continuity... Continue Reading


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Scientists found a surprising driver of Alzheimer’s outside the brain

Scientists found that immune cells contributing to Alzheimer’s-related brain damage may be activated in lymph nodes outside the brain before traveling into the nervous system. Blocking this pathway in mice dramatically reduced neurodegeneration and preserved cognitive abilities, pointing to a potentially more accessible treatment target.


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Pomegranate compound improves heart function by up to 80% in study

A compound the body can make after eating pomegranates, walnuts, and some berries improved measures of heart function by up to 80% in animal models of a difficult-to-treat form of heart failure. Urolithin A helped stiff heart tissue relax and reduced scarring and abnormal enlargement. It also improved relaxation in engineered human heart tissue.


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In Caregiving, Anxiety Can Be Contagious

We all live with a certain amount of worry, much of which is caused by fear of the unknown. Since health issues...


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Your next prescription could be treating a side effect from the last one

A major Ontario study found 24 common medication chains in which one drug’s side effects can be mistaken for a new medical problem, leading to another prescription. Researchers say closer medication reviews, pharmacist involvement, and automated alerts could help prevent these potentially harmful prescribing cascades.


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Glucosamine, a popular joint supplement, linked to faster Alzheimer’s progression

A large health-record analysis found that glucosamine use was associated with a 25% higher likelihood of mild cognitive impairment progressing to dementia. Lab experiments suggest the popular joint supplement may intensify an abnormal sugar-tagging process in the Alzheimer’s brain, although researchers say clinical trials are needed to determine whether it actually causes harm.


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Glucosamine, a popular joint supplement, linked to faster Alzheimer’s progression

A large health-record analysis found that glucosamine use was associated with a 25% higher likelihood of mild cognitive impairment progressing to dementia. Lab experiments suggest the popular joint supplement may intensify an abnormal sugar-tagging process in the Alzheimer’s brain, although researchers say clinical trials are needed to determine whether it actually causes harm.


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Eating more ultra-processed foods may raise prostate cancer risk by 30%

Ultra-processed foods make up a huge share of the American diet, and new research suggests they may carry another serious health risk for men. In a nationally representative study of more than 17,000 U.S. men, those who ate more ultra-processed foods, including soft drinks, packaged snacks, cereals, and processed meats, had roughly 24% to 31% higher risks of prostate cancer after accounting for factors such as age, smoking, race and ethnicity, and poverty status.


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11 Downsizing Tips for Seniors Who Are Moving to Assisted Living

For most seniors, moving from a long-time home into an assisted living facility is difficult. For some, it’s nearly paralyzing. In addition...


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Textbooks may have misdrawn this basic brain structure for 100 years

Scientists discovered that brain-cell axons may not be smooth tubes as textbooks have shown for more than a century, but instead naturally resemble strings of tiny pearls. Those pearl-like structures can change with neural activity and may help control how quickly electrical signals travel through the brain.


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Scientists gave worms magnetic bacteria. They lived 43% longer

A magnet-producing bacterium extended the average lifespan of C. elegans worms by more than 43% while helping protect their neurological and intestinal health. Researchers traced much of the effect to suppression of ferroptosis, a damaging form of cell death linked to iron buildup and oxidative stress.


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Fecal Incontinence Can Be a Side Effect of Various Conditions, Including Constipation

Many conditions can carry as a side effect some degree of fecal incontinence, so if you are affected or someone you care...


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Scientists discover a hidden switch that shuts down inflammation

Scientists have uncovered a natural braking system that helps the immune system switch off inflammation and prevent harmful immune cells from building up. Boosting this pathway in people reduced inflammation-related immune changes and sped up pain relief, pointing toward potential new treatments for chronic inflammatory diseases.


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Six things you can do right now to prevent falls at home

The CDC reports one in four Americans aged 65 and older falls each year. With more seniors choosing to age in place and stay at home, the risk of falling increases. Here are some areas you can examine in your home right now to reduce the risk of falls.   Tips to prevent falls at … Continue reading Six things you can do right now to prevent falls at home →


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Breakthrough drug reverses skin aging and dramatically speeds healing

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Making an Assisted Living Apartment Feel Like Home

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Scientists reveal the hidden instructions that build the human brain

UCLA researchers have discovered two powerful influences that help guide how the human brain forms before birth. Radial glia, stem cells responsible for producing much of the cerebral cortex, change their behavior depending on how they process glucose and on physical contact with signals arriving from the thalamus. Those signals can alter which types of neurons are produced, including upper-layer neurons that are especially prominent in humans.


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Hidden brain wiring may help keep the mind sharp as gray matter shrinks

Scientists have discovered that the brain’s short-range wiring may help protect cognition even as gray matter shrinks with age. Healthier connections just beneath the brain’s surface were linked to better language skills and appeared to weaken the impact of gray matter loss.


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Protecting the Pint: Rebel Creamery Appeals Trade Dress Judgment

It is back out of the freezer and into court for Van Leeuwen Ice Cream LLC v. Rebel Creamery LLC, after Rebel submitted an appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection....
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Embracing Positive Caregiving Moments Makes Bad Times Tolerable

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Scientists solve a 50-year mystery and discover a new human blood group

Scientists have identified the genetic cause behind the mysterious AnWj blood group antigen, solving a puzzle that began in 1972 and establishing a new blood group system called MAL. The discovery could make it much easier to find extremely rare AnWj-negative patients and donors and protect them from potentially dangerous transfusion reactions.


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Brain scans reveal a possible cause of long COVID fatigue and brain fog

Researchers have found evidence that long COVID may damage dopamine releasing neurons in the brain, potentially explaining persistent fatigue, low motivation, slowed movement, and memory difficulties. The discovery could lead to new treatments that target the brain's dopamine system.


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Nahandji v. World Wrestling Entertainment, LLC

In case alleging that WWE stole independent wrestling producer’s unique audiovisual sequence, district court holds that plaintiff failed to plausibly allege that WWE had access to plaintiff’s audiovisual sequence, that there was any substantial similarity between the parties’ sequences or that plaintiff’s sequence qualified as trade dress, dismissing all claims with prejudice....
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A cancer therapy put severe rheumatoid arthritis into remission

CAR T-cell therapy dramatically reduced disease activity in six people with severe rheumatoid arthritis that had resisted other treatments, with three achieving medication-free remission. The treatment may work by clearing out harmful immune cells and effectively rebooting part of the immune system, although much larger studies are still needed.


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Cancer is rising in younger adults. Faster biological aging may help explain why

Cancer rates are rising in adults under 55, and new research suggests accelerated biological aging may be one piece of the puzzle. Scientists found that people from more recent generations tended to have bodies that appeared biologically older than those of earlier generations at the same chronological age. Greater biological age acceleration was linked to a higher risk of early onset cancers, with specific patterns seen for lung, gastrointestinal, uterine and colorectal cancers.


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When We Become Caregivers, Friends May Disappear

Most people have not personally provided care for a loved one and therefore cannot fully understand everything that goes into being a...


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Tooth count may predict survival after pancreatic cancer surgery

Pancreatic cancer patients with at least 21 natural teeth survived nearly two years longer after surgery than those with fewer teeth in a study of 339 people. Researchers suspect tooth loss may reflect decades of inflammation, frailty, nutrition, and other factors tied to the body’s overall resilience.


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Scientists find an immune “false alarm” that may drive rapid aging

Scientists have discovered that some severe genetic disorders linked to rapid aging may be driven not just by damaged DNA, but by the body’s overreaction to that damage. When broken DNA fragments leak into the wrong part of a cell, an immune sensor called cGAS can mistake them for signs of a viral infection, triggering chronic inflammation and even interfering with DNA repair itself.


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Falls Prevention Awareness Week: Don’t Let a Preventable Fall Alter the Rest of Your Life

Dear Readers: Falls Prevention Awareness Day is observed on the first day of autumn each year. That means Tuesday, September 22, 2026,...


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Popular sweetener byproduct damages DNA in human cells

Sucralose, the artificial sweetener used in Splenda, came under scrutiny after a study found that a related chemical damaged DNA and weakened the gut barrier in laboratory experiments. But later findings have complicated that alarming picture.


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