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PET links tau pathology to speech changes in unimpaired patients

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Brain pathology associated with Alzheimer’s disease in cognitively unimpaired adults appears to be linked to speech changes, according to neurologists at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. Tau PET imaging detects one such biomarker – neurofibrillary tau tangles – which begin to develop early on in the course of the disease, they added.

Disease 106
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Lung cancer incidence continues to increase among younger women

AuntMinnie

"[We] found that the higher lung cancer incidence in women than in men has not only continued in individuals younger than 50 years but also now extends to middle-aged adults as younger women with a high risk of the disease enter older age," the group reported. "[But] and female to male rate disease incidence ratios using the Tiwari method.

Disease 97
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REBEL Core Cast 122.0 – Neutropenic Fever

REBEL EM

Read More: Infectious Disease Society of America 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines Life in the Fast Lane: Febrile Neutropaenia Uptodate: overview of neutropenic fever syndromes EMRAP: Risk stratification of neutropenic fever MDCalc: MASCC Score MDCalc: CISNE Score References: Ahn S, Rice TW, Yeung SJ, Cooksley T. Eur J Haematol 2005; 75:1.

Disease 77
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REBEL Core Cast 108.0 – Angioedema

REBEL EM

patients that take ACE inhibitors (but 20-30% of all angioedema presentations to the Emergency Department) 3 times more common in Black Americans ( Kostis 2005 ) 0.01 Typically involves the mouth, larynx, pharynx, and subglottic tissue ( Kostis 2005 ). of people who take NSAIDs ( Nzeako 2010 ).

Clinic 90
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AI shows promise detecting TB in Zambia

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“AI can triage for active pulmonary TB with non-inferior performance to radiologists and detect differential diagnoses, indicating potential to aid cost effective TB screening,” said presenter Nsala Sanjase, a research fellow at the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Lusaka, in a session held November 30. In 2021, 1.6

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ARRS Roentgen Fund Names Francis Baffour, Hyun Soo Ko Radiology Journalism Fellows

Imaging Technology

As associate medical director of the CT Clinical Innovation Center in Mayo Clinic Rochester’s department of radiology, he supports the mission of facilitating high-impact imaging innovations with direct effect on patients, such as radiation dose reduction techniques, novel CT technologies, and quantitative assessment of disease activity.

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Journal Scan – This Month in Other Journals, June 2023

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Diagnosis and Management of Cerebral Small Vessel Disease. 0000000000001232 Cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) is one of the most common clinical conditions that a neuroimager will encounter. Anti-amyloid antibody therapies in Alzheimer’s disease. Sharrief A. Continuum (Minneap Minn). 2023;29(2):501-518. doi:10.1212/CON.0000000000001232

Disease 40