Oral Health for Older Adults
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A GREAT DENTAL resource provides low-cost programs for American seniors. Also check out the website’s free “how to” guide for communities.
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China Approves Seaweed Sugar as Alzheimer’s Drug
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Namenda’s Switch to Namenda-XR
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Namenda Converting to “Namenda XR”
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Amlodipine is Racing to be the 1st Vascular Dementia Treatment
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Hopkins Defends Statins’ Brain Benefits In Face of FDA Warning
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Top experts at world-renowned Johns Hopkins Medicine did a systematic review of existing statin studies. Unlike the FDA, they found no connection between short-term statin
Namenda’s Switch to Namenda XR
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If you use Namenda (also called memantine or Ebixa) for Alzheimer’s, there is an important change planned for August 15. Learn about the move to
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