A New Do It Yourself Screening Test for Dementia
The British Medical Journal has reported a new self-administered screening test for Alzheimer's dementia: Self administered cognitive screening test (TYM) for detection of Alzheimer’s disease: cross sectional study. Just like so many other tests like HIV status, pregnancy, and blood sugar measurements, now people can take 15 or so minutes and in the privacy of their own home, determine if there's sufficient evidence of a problem to seek further evaluation.
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The big story this week was a recommendation by an international body of experts, including the American Diabetes Association, to use a test called hemoglobin A1C, often abbreviated HbA1C, or even simply A1C, to
Computers Can Help People Quit Smoking
Guys who play football professionally are probably in great shape, right? They work out all the time, pay close attention to what they eat and get regular physical exams. Turns out though, that the majority of professional football players have either high blood pressure or the condition that precedes it known as prehypertension. That's in this week's JAMA, 
Good news came this week from Annals of Internal Medicine, 
Why the Mediterranean Diet Helps
June 28th, 2009|Medical News Commentary|By Elizabeth Tracey
We've all been hearing it for years: eat more like our Mediterranean cousins do (read that Greeks) and you'll live longer. Such a diet, dubbed the 'Mediterranean diet,' should include olive oil as the main oil consumed, lots of fruits and veggies, and wine, judiciously quaffed. But what exactly about this diet is most important in prolonging life? Investigators at Harvard took a stab at it and published their results this week.
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