U.S. physicians are graduating unprepared to address the leading causes of death in their patients.
Cardiometabolic diseases related to diet account for approximately $800 billion annually in U.S. health care expenditures. Medicare bears a substantial share of these costs via diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity and hypertension treatment.
Also, multiple studies have found that diets based on healthy plants that avoid processed meats and sugars reduce risks for cognitive decline, with structured interventions providing the most benefits for patients at risk.
However, approximately 71% of

CHICAGO — Odds for developing Parkinson’s disease increased with newer groundwater and with carbonate aquifers, according to a poster presented at the American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting.
“Our previous studies have focused a lot on air pollution, but we know from prior research that contaminated drinking water can also impact health,” Brittany Krzyzanowski, PhD, who conducted the study at Barrow Neurological Institute, told Healio.
“There’s a wealth of underused data on drinking water sources, like aquifer type and groundwater characteristics, so we took the opportunity to explore how

MUNICH — A monoclonal antibody being studied as a potential therapy for chikungunya virus infection showed potential as both a treatment for the mosquito-borne disease and as pre-exposure prophylaxis to prevent infection, researchers said.
Hugh Watson, PhD, president of Quayside Research in Lyon, France, and colleagues studied the mAb, called EVT894, in a first-in-human randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study at three research sites in the United States. Watson presented findings from the study here at ESCMID Global.
There are no specific treatments for chikungunya, which is rarely

MUNICH — Children who survive severe malaria can experience cognitive impairment for many years after the infection, according to new study findings.
The study, conducted in Uganda, reassessed around 900 children 4 to 15 years after their bouts with severe malaria and found they had diminished overall cognitive and math scores.
That far exceeds previous findings by the same research team that showed severe malaria in childhood can impact cognition for 1 or 2 years, according to Chandy C. John, MD, MS, Ryan White Professor of Pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine, who presented

CHICAGO — Football players experienced nearly one out of every five traumatic brain injuries among youth athletes, according to a poster presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s 78th Annual Meeting.
These injuries frequently recurred, and the neurological and psychiatric sequelae were substantial, according to Isaac Thorman, MSc, a rising fourth year medical student at New York Medical College, and colleagues.
“The mechanisms by which kids and adults get their TBIs are very interesting and tell us a lot about what goes on in their lives and how that can influence the outcomes,” Thorman

MIAMI — In this video from Sunshine Eye & Retina, Nandini Venkateswaran, MD, discussed at a lunch symposium neurotrophic keratitis-targeted therapies to restore corneal sensation and repair vision.
Venkateswaran said physicians should test corneal sensation to understand corneal nerve health, how corneal hemostasis is affected by neurotrophic keratitis and why patients present with various degrees of corneal pathology.
“We have so many therapies we can now implement in our practices to treat these conditions, ranging from medical therapies to surgical interventions,” Venkateswaran, of