Health

What is vascular dementia?

Vascular dementia is a general term describing problems with reasoning, planning, judgment, memory and other thought processes caused by brain damage from impaired blood flow to your brain.

Neuroscience

Antibiotic use can increase nerve damage risk

Research from the University of Dundee has shown that a commonly used class of antibiotics may increase a patient's risk of suffering a serious and potentially permanent form of nerve damage by almost 50 percent.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

'A battlefield behind your home': Deaths mount in New York

New York authorities rushed to bring in an army of medical volunteers Wednesday as the statewide death toll from the coronavirus doubled in 72 hours to more than 1,900 and the wail of ambulances in the otherwise eerily quiet ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia

People with dementia and the right to independent life

Experiences of people with dementia and their family members show researchers how a progressive illness affects the realization of the fundamental rights, and how the status of people with dementia can be improved.

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