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Tai Chi vs. Other Exercises for Parkinson Disease

A randomized comparison suggests potential benefits from both tai chi and resistance training.

Prostate Cancer Screening: Still No Mortality Benefit

Results after 13 years of follow-up in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial confirmed earlier findings.

Stroke Survivors Face a High Burden of Vascular Dementia

Delayed dementia after stroke is common and appears to reflect mostly vascular pathology.

Nicotine for MCI?

A small study of a nicotine patch in patients with mild cognitive impairment showed some benefit on a reaction-time test but no effect according to clinicians' judgment.

Healthy Nutrients in the Blood Help the Aging Brain

A study of nutrient biomarker levels in plasma confirms the usual suspects that help or hurt our cognition.

Antipsychotics Vary in Mortality Risk in Dementia Patients

Haloperidol had the highest 6-month mortality rate; quetiapine, the lowest.

Longer Follow-Up from the U.S. Prostate Cancer Screening Trial

At 13 years, still no mortality benefit

Erectile Dysfunction Appears to Be More Prevalent in Psoriatic Patients

Dermatologists should ask male patients with psoriasis about ED and make appropriate referrals.

Vitamin D and Calcium Supplements: What Do the Data Show? Who Should Be Treated?

Vitamin D and calcium supplementation may lower fracture risk in some individuals, but data regarding its effects on cancer are inconclusive.

Lifetime Cardiovascular Risk: The More Things Change . . .

Risk factors are less prevalent than in the past, but they are just as predictive of outcome.

Behavioral Techniques to Address Overactive Bladder in Men

These techniques worked just as well as anticholinergic drugs.

Postoperative RBC Transfusions: More Is Not Better

A liberal red blood cell transfusion strategy did not improve outcomes after hip fracture surgery.

Even Subclinical AF Is Associated with Stroke

In patients with pacemakers, asymptomatic AF is common and warrants increased vigilance.

Vitamin D and UVB Radiation: How Much Is Necessary?

For individuals unable to benefit from supplements, ultraviolet B exposure every 2 weeks may be an alternative.

Altered Circadian Rhythms Are Associated with Dementia

But are they a cause or an effect?

Elders Might Be Overscreened for Cancer

The prostate cancer screening rate seems particularly excessive.

Bisphosphonate Use Extends Implant Survival After Primary Hip and Knee Arthroplasty

In a U.K. study, bisphosphonate users had significantly lower rates of revision.

Traditional Metal-on-Polyethylene Hip Implants Aren't Inferior to Newer Devices

Revision arthroplasty was needed more often by patients who received metal-on-metal or ceramic-on-ceramic devices.

Yet Another Way to Slow Aging

Eliminating aging cells from the body might be a key.

USPSTF Recommends Against Prostate Cancer Screening

The Task Force determined that the harms of screening outweighed the benefits for most men.

Screening for Lung Cancer: Radiography? No. Low-Dose CT? Maybe.

Low-dose computed tomography was a more effective screening tool than chest radiography, but its high sensitivity came with low specificity.

Ovarian Cancer Screening: No Effect on Mortality

Annual screening with measurement of CA-125 and vaginal ultrasound led to harm among women with false positives and did not lengthen survival.

Atypical Femur Fractures with Bisphosphonates

Risk is low but not inconsequential.

Three More Topics That Drew Our Attention in 2011

Tiotropium for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, medical therapy for certain patients who might have undergone coronary artery bypass grafting, and efficacy of the herpes zoster vaccine are all on our radar in 2011.

Rectal Cancer Incidence Rose After Radiation Therapy for Prostate Cancer

Excess 10-year risk was roughly one case per 100 men.

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