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    2023-04-19 People with Down Syndrome Are Living Longer, but the Health System Still Treats Many as Kids Tony Leys MONTROSE, Mo. — It took Samantha Lesmeister’s family four months to find a medical professional who could see that she was struggling with something more than her Down syndrome. The young woman, known as […]

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Book Review: How Alzheimer’s Caregivers Cope in a Warped Reality

    2023-04-19 Book Review: How Alzheimer’s Caregivers Cope in a Warped Reality  by Lina Tran At 25, Dasha Kiper moved in with a 98-year-old man. She’d just left a graduate program in clinical psychology; Mr. Kessler was a Holocaust survivor in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, whose son had hired Kiper as a […]

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Psychedelics may better treat depression and anxiety symptoms than prescription antidepressants for patients with advanced cancer

Psychedelics may better treat depression and anxiety symptoms than prescription antidepressants for patients with advanced cancer Psilocybin and other psychedelics could help patients process the challenges of a cancer diagnosis. Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library via Getty Images C. Michael White, University of Connecticut In people with advanced cancer, psychedelic drugs like psilocybin, LSD and MDMA may […]

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Older Californians Deaths of Malnutrition Climbing

    2023-04-17 The Rate of Older Californians Dying of Malnutrition Has Accelerated Phillip Reese A growing number of California’s oldest residents are dying of malnutrition, a yearslong trend that accelerated during the covid pandemic. Deaths attributed to malnutrition more than doubled, from about 650 in 2018 to roughly 1,400 in 2022, according to preliminary […]

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