Early detection of a patient’s risk to improve health outcomes is not a new idea. “Meet the disease on its way to attack you,” was first penned by early Roman writer Juvenal. It is a mantra so applicable to predictive analytics that expert Dr. Randall Moorman and others with whom he worked trademarked the quote… Read More »
Obesity is the biggest ‘chronic’ risk factor for coronavirus hospitalizations, largest US study of COVID-19 finds Two New York University studies earmarked age, obesity as biggest risk factors Researchers found almost half (46 per cent) of patients were aged 65 or over Those under 60 twice as likely to need hospital care or ventilator if… Read More »
Depression in people with eating disorders typically has its own unique features, this is a common symptom of bulimia as well. The idea that if you’re not unhealthily thin, people with anorexia fail to eat enough food to maintain a healthy weight. Director of the Oregon Psychoanalytic Institute than Portland, and looking at food like… Read More »
(Reuters) – Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc said on Wednesday dementia patients taking its drug Nuplazid were nearly three times less prone to a psychotic relapse than those on placebo. The drugmaker’s late-stage trial testing Nuplazid, stopped in September after positive results, enrolled 392 patients aged 74.5 years on average. Patients on the drug experienced a 65%… Read More »
So, there are always bananas in my house. But the problem with bananas is that they go soft very quickly, and I like a firm banana. So along with my firm bananas there are usually a couple of ‘gone beyond’ bananas which languish, unloved and untouched. In the past this hasn’t been a problem as… Read More »