Japan supports WHO’s work to improve health services and emergency response

Japan supports WHO’s work to improve health services and emergency response

The Government of Japan’s support to WHO has enabled the Western Pacific Region and other countries across the globe to carry out much-needed health emergencies responses and to provide essential health services to vulnerable populations. Essential pivotal work has taken place in Ethiopia, the Gaza Strip, Pacific Islands countries, Somalia, Syria, Tonga, the Western Pacific … Read more

RELEASE: Gottheimer, Underwood Advocate for Federal Action to Improve Maternal Health with Momnibus

RELEASE: Gottheimer, Underwood Advocate for Federal Action to Improve Maternal Health with Momnibus

Above: Gottheimer, Underwood advocate for federal action to improve maternal health. HACKENSACK, NJ — Today, Tuesday, June 11, 2024, U.S. Representatives Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5) and Lauren Underwood (IL-14) advocated for greater federal action to improve maternal health and address the United States’s maternal mortality crisis. Before making the announcement, Gottheimer and Underwood toured Hackensack University Medical … Read more

Lifestyle changes may slow or improve Alzheimer’s and dementia, study finds

Lifestyle changes may slow or improve Alzheimer’s and dementia, study finds

Editor’s note: CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s documentary“The Last Alzheimer’s Patient” streams June 18 on MAX as part of “The Whole Story With Anderson Cooper.” CNN  —  Looking back, Tammy Maida, 67, said things started to change in her late 50s. At first, she would lose track of her belongings: her keys multiple … Read more

Lifestyle changes may slow or improve Alzheimer’s and dementia, study finds

Editor’s note: CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s documentary“The Last Alzheimer’s Patient” streams June 18 on MAX as part of “The Whole Story With Anderson Cooper.” CNN  —  Looking back, Tammy Maida, 67, said things started to change in her late 50s. At first, she would lose track of her belongings: her keys multiple … Read more

Lifestyle Changes Significantly Improve Cognition and Function in Early Alzheimer’s Disease for the First Time in a Randomized Controlled Trial

Lifestyle Changes Significantly Improve Cognition and Function in Early Alzheimer’s Disease for the First Time in a Randomized Controlled Trial

SAN FRANCISCO, June 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — For the first time, a randomized controlled clinical trial has demonstrated that an intensive lifestyle intervention, without drugs, significantly improved cognition and function after 20 weeks in many patients with mild cognitive impairment or early dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease. The multisite clinical study was published today in the leading … Read more