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Top news stories from AMA Morning Rounds®: Week of May 9, 2022

In the news: COVID deaths surpass 1M in U.S., grim milestones drug overdose and firearm homicide rates, modifiable Alzheimer’s risk factors and more.

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Top news stories from AMA Morning Rounds®: Week of June 7, 2021

In the news: Administration urged to preserve telehealth expansion, FDA approves new Alzheimer’s treatment, COVID vaccines for kids, OSHA announces COVID safety rule.

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Top news stories from AMA Morning Rounds®: Week of Nov. 30, 2020

In the news: Dementia and finance problems, CDC recommends first vaccine recipients, CDC shortens quarantine length, HHS allows telemedicine across state lines.

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Top news stories from AMA Morning Rounds®: Week of Nov. 2, 2020

In the news: U.S. COVID-19 cases, Pregnant women and severe COVID-19, Americans on special diets, experimental Alzheimer’s drug, SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in children

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Top news stories from AMA Morning Rounds®: Week of June 22, 2020

In the news: COVID-19 cases in young adults, ED visits and COVID-19, asymptomatic COVID-19 cases, menopause and women’s Alzheimer’s risk, CDC estimates 20M COVID-19 cases

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Top news stories from AMA Morning Rounds®: Week of Feb. 24, 2020

In the news: Updates on COVID-19 in the U.S., Title X decision gags physicians, cognitive decline in widowed adults, 42% of U.S. adults have obesity.

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Manipulating patients’ memories: Not for the unfamiliar

New treatments promise memory improvements but also carry risks. The AMA Journal of Ethics considers this and other challenging uses of neuropsychology.

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Tomás J. Ryan, PhD, a neuroscientist who spoke last week at TEDMED in Palm Springs, Calif.
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Bringing memories back from the dead: science, not fiction

Research on amnesia could one day lead to treatments for memory loss, an MIT neuroscientist says at the TEDMED conference.

Chronic Diseases
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How improv is helping patients with Alzheimer's disease

Two actors are approaching Alzheimer’s disease with a creative way to break through. Find out how the rules of improv can help forge stronger connections with Alzheimer patients.

Chronic Diseases