Jose Belardo of Lansing, Kan., spent most of his career in the U.S. Public Health Service. He worked on the front lines of disasters in ...
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(HealthDay News) — Few physicians would find euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (EAS) conceivable for patients with psychiatric disease, dementia, or those who are “tired of ...
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Read More »Physicians Call for Greater Access to Palliative Care
More than 1.5 million patients received hospice care last year. But palliative care providers are concerned that one-third of those patients died within seven days ...
Read More »Is Tau the ‘How’ Behind Alzheimer’s?
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, Oct. 31, 2014 (HealthDay News) — Malfunction of a key brain protein called tau is the likely culprit behind Alzheimer’s ...
Read More »Neurotic, Anxious Women at Greater Risk for Alzheimer’s
By Brad Broker Middle aged, neurotic, easily stressed women are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease later in life, according to a new study published ...
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