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Men who reported taking sildenafil for erectile dysfunction also had a reduced risk for Alzheimer’s disease, a recent study looking at a large number of medical records found. What about women? Johns Hopkins geriatrics expert Lolita Nidadavolu, who wrote an …

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Sildenafil, taken for erectile dysfunction, seems to have helped reduce Alzheimer’s disease risk in men. Would the drug have the same impact on women, and what might the side effects look like? Lolita Nidadavolu, a geriatrics expert at Johns Hopkins …

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Taking sildenafil for erectile dysfunction reduced the risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease, a study looking at medical records of over 260,000 found.  Geriatrics expert Lolita Nidadavolu at Johns Hopkins and coauthor of an editorial on the study says there is a …

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Men who took sildenafil for erectile dysfunction experienced less Alzheimer’s disease than men who did not, a very large study looking at medical records found. One problem, says Lolita Nidadavolu, a Johns Hopkins geriatrics expert and coauthor of an editorial …

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Sildenafil is used by men with erectile dysfunction, with a recent study examining medical records of men who used it finding they also developed Alzheimer’s disease less often. This is called an observational study, and it only can find an …

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Examining the medical records of more than 265,000 men has revealed that those who took the erectile dysfunction drug sildenafil experienced a reduced rate of Alzheimer’s disease in comparison to those who did not. Lolita Nidadavolu, a geriatrics expert at …

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Publishing the results of your work is an important way to share what you’ve learned with other nurses and – bigger picture – advance the science of nursing. Finding time to actually write, however, can be challenging.  That is where …

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The Modernizing Opioid Treatment and Access Act, or MOTAA, was presented to Congress in March 2023, as a means to expand access to medicines used in opioid use disorder treatment. Clearly such legislation is needed in light of the 100,000 …

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Decriminalizing drugs doesn’t seem to have stemmed the tide of substance use in Oregon, and now the state is backpedaling. Yet over 100,000 drug overdose deaths in 2022, recently reported by the CDC, must be addressed somehow. Substance use disorder …

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Over 100,000 people died in 2022 because of drug overdoses, with the majority of them using illegal opioids in ways other than injection, the latest CDC data shows. Substance use disorder expert Michael Fingerhood at Johns Hopkins says while interdiction …

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