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Patients’ Goals During Long-Term Acute Care Hospital Stays

After a long-term acute care hospital stay, most patients will achieve goals of ventilator liberation, eating, drinking, and speaking, but many will not achieve independence in walking, grooming, toileting, or returning home.

Coffee and Tea: Drink Choice and Effects on Stroke, Dementia, and Poststroke Dementia

Moderate amounts of coffee and/or tea consumption were associated with the lowest hazard ratio of stroke and dementia, while coffee alone or in combination with tea was associated with a lower risk of poststroke dementia.

Association Between Breastfeeding and Blood Pressure at 3 Years of Age

Any breastfeeding, including within the first days of life, was associated with significantly lower systolic blood pressure at age 3 years in participants from the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development Cohort Study.

Coffee and Tea: Drink Choice and Effects on Stroke, Dementia, and Poststroke Dementia

A long-term, large-scale prospective study revealed moderate amounts of coffee and/or tea consumption was associated with the lowest hazard ratio of stroke and dementia, while coffee alone or in combination with tea was associated with a lower risk of poststroke dementia.

CGRP Antagonists: What Is Their Role in Headache Therapy?

Migraine is a highly prevalent and debilitating condition that causes significant impairment in quality of life. Preventive therapy for migraine is indicated when migraine attacks interfere with quality of life or are frequent and debilitating. The ability to prevent migraine with pharmacologic therapy has long been a goal of both patients and their physicians. The ideal preventive (prophylactic) migraine treatment should be effective, safe, and well tolerated, with few or no contraindications, few or no drug interactions, safety in pregnancy and breastfeeding, and dosed in a manner to ease adherence.

Patient Pool Eligible for Lung Cancer Screening Expands Under Amended Criteria

CMS lowers age, smoking history thresholds.

Clindamycin Vaginal Gel 2% (Xaciato)

Clindamycin gel can be prescribed to treat bacterial vaginosis in women age 12 years and older.

Screen Older Heart Failure Patients for Transthyretin Cardiac Amyloidosis

A screening study of heart failure patients ≥ age 60 years, left ventricular ejection fraction ≥ 40%, and left ventricle wall thickness ≥ 12 mm revealed 6.3% prevalence of transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis, a highly treatable disease.

Is Physical Activity Associated with Mortality Risk in Parkinson’s Disease?

In individuals with Parkinson’s disease (PD), physical activity (PA) at all intensities was associated with lower all-cause mortality rates, with the greatest reduction seen in individuals who maintained PA before and after PD diagnosis.

Multiple Sclerosis and Immune Response to COVID-19 Vaccination

A large group of patients with multiple sclerosis taking various disease-modifying therapies did not respond uniformly to COVID-19 vaccination.