Online Tool Helps Reduce Medications in Elderly

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Many people start taking a long-term prescription medicine sometime during adulthood. A particularly common one is medication for treating high blood pressure, which many people start taking as early as their 30s. As people get older, often more medical problems arise with more specialist doctors seeing the patient and adding more medications to treat the … Read more

Worth a Closer Look: May 2019

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A list of papers published in May 2019 that piqued my interest

A Key to Restoring Age-Related Hearing Loss

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A team of researchers, led by Ronna Hertzano from the University of Maryland School of Medicine (USA) and Michael Bowl from the MRC Harwell Institute (United Kingdom), has identified the gene Ikzf2 as a key regulator critical for the functional maturation of cochlear outer hair cells. The cochlea is part of the inner ear (Figure 1). … Read more