New AI Model Forecasts Hidden Side Effects of Drug Combinations
A new machine learning method called DCSE predicts side effects of drug combinations and introduces more realistic evaluation standards that ...
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Europe’s Older Adults Face a Care Divide as Geriatricians and Psychiatrists Unite
A joint European task force of geriatricians and psychiatrists warns that fragmented physical and mental healthcare is shortening the lives ...
Crushing Pills in Nursing Homes: One in Three Manipulations May Be Unsafe
A national Italian study of 82 long-term care facilities found that nearly one in four solid oral medications is altered ...
Incontinence After Hip Fracture in Older Men Predicts Death Within a Year, Study Finds
A Finnish cohort study of 644 older men with hip fracture found that pre-fracture fecal incontinence independently predicted one-year mortality, ...
When Guidelines Collide, Doctors Must Choose: Prioritisation Is a Treatment in Its Own Right
A new Perspective in the Journal of General Internal Medicine argues that deciding which guidelines to follow first, defer, or ...
Midazolam Alone Often Fails in End-of-Life Sedation, French Cohort Reveals
A French cohort study of 287 palliative care patients found that midazolam monotherapy failed in nearly three quarters of continuous ...
What Makes Families Open to Cutting Medications in Nursing Homes? It’s the Drugs, Not the Demographics
A survey of 973 South Korean family caregivers finds that attitudes toward deprescribing are shaped by residents' medication circumstances such ...
Surgery at 80 and Beyond: New Review Maps the Perioperative Roadmap for the Oldest Patients
A new narrative review in European Geriatric Medicine synthesizes the evidence on frailty, cardiac risk, nutrition, delirium, and rehabilitation to ...
Diabetes Drugs Often Continue Until Death in Dementia Patients, Landmark Study Finds
A landmark study of more than 16,500 people in the United Kingdom and Australia shows that glucose-lowering medications often persist ...
One in Three Older Hospital Patients Gets a Wrong Blood Thinner Dose, Study Finds
A French multicenter study of 421 hospitalized older adults found that 32 percent of direct oral anticoagulant prescriptions were inappropriate ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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