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Vilash Reddy, MD
Aug 18, 20244 min read
Vision Loss a New Dementia Risk Factor? What Do the Data Say?
In 2019, 57 million people worldwide were living with dementia, a figure expected to soar to 153 million by 2050. A recent Lancet...
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Vilash Reddy, MD
Aug 14, 20246 min read
Nutrition Crucial for Child and Adolescent Athletes
PARIS — A child or adolescent athlete generally engages in school and extracurricular sports practice for more than 10 hours per week....
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Vilash Reddy, MD
Aug 13, 20242 min read
Anxiety Linked to a Threefold Increased Risk for Dementia
TOPLINE: Both chronic and new-onset anxiety are linked to a threefold increased risk for dementia onset in later life, new research...
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Vilash Reddy, MD
Aug 12, 20245 min read
5 Things Everyone Should Know About Psychiatric Hospitalization
Keynote: Anyone could experience a mental health condition or hospitalization. Inpatient mental health treatment is offered when a person...
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Vilash Reddy, MD
Aug 8, 20244 min read
Healing Beyond the Hospital: Improving Post-Op Care for Older Adults
An 83-year-old veteran of battles with chronic disease who has been a long-time patient of mine recently faced colorectal cancer surgery....
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Vilash Reddy, MD
Aug 8, 20243 min read
Alzheimer's Blood Test in Primary Care Could Slash Diagnostic, Treatment Wait Times
As disease-modifying treatments for Alzheimer's disease (AD) become available, equipping primary care physicians with a highly accurate...
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Vilash Reddy, MD
Aug 8, 20243 min read
Tau Blood Test Flags Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease
Plasma phosphorylated (p)-tau217 testing can help identify preclinical Alzheimer's disease (AD), which could aid clinical trial...
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Vilash Reddy, MD
Aug 7, 20244 min read
Ozempic Curbs Hunger – And Not Just for Food
Welcome to Impact Factor, your weekly dose of commentary on a new medical study. I'm Dr F. Perry Wilson of the Yale School of Medicine....
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Vilash Reddy, MD
Aug 7, 20245 min read
Red Meat Tied to Increased Dementia Risk
Higher intake of processed red meat, including bacon, hot dogs, and sausages, is associated with an elevated dementia risk, preliminary...
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Vilash Reddy, MD
Aug 6, 20244 min read
Almost 50% of Global Dementia Cases May Be Preventable
PHILADELPHIA – Nearly half of dementia cases worldwide could theoretically be prevented or delayed by eliminating 14 modifiable risk...
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Vilash Reddy, MD
Aug 6, 20244 min read
An Effective Nondrug Approach to Improve Sleep in Dementia, Phase 3 Data Show
A multicomponent nonpharmaceutical intervention improves sleep in people with dementia living at home, early results of a new phase 3...
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Vilash Reddy, MD
Aug 5, 20242 min read
Mental Health and Diabetic Complications: A Two-Way Link
TOPLINE: Mental health disorders increase the likelihood of developing chronic diabetic complications and vice versa across all age...
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Vilash Reddy, MD
Aug 5, 20244 min read
Introducing: A New Way to Get Teens Mental Health Care
Lauren Opladen remembers the agonizing wait all too well. At age 17, struggling with paralyzing depression after losing her brother to...
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Vilash Reddy, MD
Aug 5, 20243 min read
Common Antidepressants Ranked by Potential for Weight Gain
Eight commonly used antidepressants have been ranked by their weight gain potential. Results of a large observational study showed small...
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Vilash Reddy, MD
Aug 4, 20244 min read
Novel Cell-Based Therapy Promising for Alzheimer's Disease
PHILADELPHIA — An experimental, cell-based therapy met its primary safety and secondary efficacy endpoints in a phase 2a study on mild...
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Vilash Reddy, MD
Aug 4, 20244 min read
Could Methylene Blue Help Treat Depression?
Keypoint: Why a blue dye may be a viable treatment for psychiatric disorders. Methylene blue is both a dye and a medicine. Methylene blue...
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Vilash Reddy, MD
Aug 2, 20247 min read
Suicide in Older Adults: Advances and the Role of Technology in Treatment
Keypoint: Recent updates in suicide prevention interventions for older adults and how a novel tablet application may provide relief to...
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Vilash Reddy, MD
Aug 2, 20242 min read
Short-Term Screen Time Reduction Improves Mental Health in Children and Adolescents
TOPLINE: Reducing screen time for entire families — parents, children, and adolescents — over a 2-week period can improve the mental...
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Vilash Reddy, MD
Aug 1, 20242 min read
'Alarming' Rise in Mental Health Hospital Admissions Involving Methamphetamine
There has been an "alarming" increase in mental health hospital admissions involving methamphetamine use, new research showed....
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Vilash Reddy, MD
Aug 1, 20242 min read
Psychiatric Disorders and Homelessness
How common are psychiatric disorders in unhoused individuals? Key points: Psychiatric illnesses are common in unhoused individuals, and...
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