On Thursday of each week, we gather some of the key cognitive health and neurology news from the past seven days. In this week’s round-up: a perspective published in The New England Journal of Medicine outlining the ways in which the Congressional sequester will affect the health sector, including reductions to budgets for Medicare, the FDA, the NIH, and the CDC; new report shows that one in three seniors now dies with a form of dementia as the cause of death or a contributing factor, while the rate of deaths from other diseases has declined; Phase 3 trials of a new drug for MS shows that the medication is highly effective for relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis.
Budget Sequestration and the U.S. Health Sector
A third of US seniors die with dementia, study finds
Excellent Results For MS Drug “Plegridy”
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