When is a child an adult?

When does childhood end? That’s the question international researchers are asking as they chart age cut-offs for paediatric services around the world. Adolescent Health Professor at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and the University of Melbourne Susan Sawyer says previous research has found that global health systems do not meet adolescents’ needs. “Yet pediatricians are well placed to provide age-appropriate […]

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Amyloid is a less accurate marker for measuring severity, progression of Alzheimer’s

While the presence of beta-amyloid plaques in the brain may be a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease, giving patients an amyloid PET scan is not an effective method for measuring their cognitive function, according to a new study from researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Thomas Jefferson University. The researchers concluded that fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) […]

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