Copyright claims a well-validated cognitive test
A new meta-analysis of brief cognitive tests appeared in JAMA Internal Medicine this week, and I was asked to opine…
A new meta-analysis of brief cognitive tests appeared in JAMA Internal Medicine this week, and I was asked to opine…
by: Alex Smith @AlexSmithMD Vivek Murthy was nominated for Surgeon General of the United States by President Obama in November…
“They are just so judgmental and hard to talk to. They’ve got their own agenda and it’s not always about…
Hip replacements are a miracle of modern medicine. They restore mobility to persons with disabling hip arthritis and free them…
The MMSE saga has attracted great attention here on GeriPal and elsewhere since the breakthrough NEJM article of Newman and…
This is the third post in a series on copyright in medicine. We started off the series with two posts.…
A couple of days ago we coveredDr. John Newman's NEJM perspectives piece that focused attention on how a company, PAR,…
The Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE) is the most widely used cognitive screening test. Many have attributed this to the relative…
Research studies often are conducted as if older patient's don't exist. Even when the disease being studied predominantly effects older…
Tina Chiu of the VERA Institute of Criminal Justice recently wrote a report It’s About Time: Aging Prisoners, Increasing Costs,…