Opiate use study in hospitalized seniors with nonsurgical conditions shows negative outcomes
By Katherine Shagoury In one of the first studies of its kind, nearly one-third of 10,000 older adults were prescribed opiate pain medications such as morphine, Percocet and OxyContin while...
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AIC2017LA: Our growing perspective about managing brain health
By Katherine Shagoury Historically, the predominant belief in medicine was that plasticity was limited to the first years of life was ascendant in medical neurology, psychiatry, and education. Nothing could be...
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AIC2017LA: Six types of Alzheimer’s disease and how to identify them
By Katherine Shagoury Most people in the U.S. are affected by Alzheimer’s disease (AD)—they either have it themselves, or know someone who is, said Dale Bredesen, MD, an internationally recognized...
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AIC2017LA: Reversal of cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease
By Katherine Shagoury Most people in the U.S. are affected by Alzheimer’s disease (AD)—they either have it themselves, or know someone who is, said Dale Bredesen, MD, an internationally recognized...
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AIC2017LA: What can Alzheimer’s Disease teach us about the brain and self?
By Katherine Shagoury There are 5.4 million Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients in the U.S. and 50,000,000 worldwide. This is an epidemic, said Rudolph E. Tanzi, Vice-Chair of the Deptartment of Neurology Genetics...
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Dual legacy of WHO’s Chan on traditional medicine integration
By John Weeks by John Weeks, Publisher/Editor of The Integrator Blog News and Reports The World Health Organization’s election last month of Ethiopian Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, MD—the first African Director-General of the agency—did...
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AIC2017LA: The neurogenesis-inflammation balance
By Katherine Shagoury Chronic inflammation suppresses neurogenesis, says David Perlmutter, MD, FACN, at the Institute for Functional Medicine’s 2017 Annual International Conference in Los Angeles, California. Gut inflammation produces inflammatory...
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AIC2017LA: Exercise proven intervention for Alzheimer’s disease
By Katherine Shagoury Historically, the medical community thought the brain could not regenerate itself. However, in recent years there has been a significant paradigm shift, said David Perlmutter, MD, FACN, at...
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