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Even Light Exercise May Drop Dementia Risk

LET’S CUT TO THE CHASE — a new study demonstrates an association between light-intensity physical activity in older adults and a lower risk of dementia. While the...

Long-Covid Patients Are Frustrated That Federal Research Hasn’t Found New Treatments

Estimates of prevalence range considerably, depending on how researchers define long covid in a given study, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention puts it at 17 million adults.

What It’s REALLY Like to Hear the Words: “You Have Cancer” 

In any word association exercise, the word cancer is most often linked with death.  Maybe two percent of outliers would say “tumor” or “sick”,...

A Mother’s Fight for Life and a Few More Weeks With Her Sons #tofersen4lisa

Lisa Stockman-Mauriello is dying from ALS, but a pharmaceutical company, Biogen, is trialing a new drug called Torfersen that may buy her a little extra time.