According to a cohort study of more than 650,000 children and young adults, there has been an increased risk of brain cancer associated with increased radiation dose to the brain from CT examinations. The researchers observed a significant dose-response relationship such that for every 10,000 people who received a single head scan, approximately one patient …
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According to a working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. This higher preventable hospitalization rate “may reflect two possibilities,” says the paper, authored by David Chan, MD, PhD, associate professor of health policy at Stanford University School of Medicine, and Yiqun Chen, PhD, assistant professor of economics at the University of Illinois …
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Summary: Prior TBI increased the risk of frontotemporal dementia in people without genetic risk factors for FTD. Additionally, researchers have found that people with FTD tend to be less educated than those with Alzheimer’s disease. Source: University of Eastern Finland Two recent studies from the University of Eastern Finland show that school history and previous …
