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End-of-life care better for patients with cancer, dementia study finds
BOSTON: A new study offers surprising findings about end-of-life care — specifically, physicians tend to be more likely to accommodate the advanced-care wishes of patients with cancer or dementia than renal disease, congestive heart failure, pulmonary disease or frailty.
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Late Dementia after ICH a ‘critical issue’
BOSTON: Dementia that develops early after an intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) is directly related to the size and location of the bleed, but dementia also develops in many patients much later, a new study shows, and this appears to be due to a different mechanism, possibly Read More »
The link between abnormal eating and Dementia
NEW YORK: Dinner time at a nursing home is not for the faint of heart.
There are as many idiosyncrasies as there are residents. One will only eat her pudding. Another woman screams for ice cream — but it must be vanilla.
Still another woman picks Read More »
Nearly one in four deaths ‘avoidable’
PHILADELPHIA: Almost a quarter of all deaths in England and Wales are potentially avoidable, 2014 figures released by the Office for National Statistics suggest.
The report shows that out of some 116,000 avoidable deaths in total, more than a third were caused by tumours.
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