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ARTICLES OF THE MONTH

OCTOBER 2018
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The Costs of Caregiving 
​Roughly 66 percent of all family caregivers are women. The average caregiver is a 49-year-old woman who works outside the home and provides at least 20 hours a week of unpaid care to her aging parent, according to the latest data from the Family Caregiving Alliance.

SEPTEMBER 2018
September is
'Women in Medicine Month'

Read about Heart Disease and Women  at the links below:  
1. AHA STATEMENT LINKING HYPERTENTION AND DEMENTIA
2. FACTS ABOUT WOMENS HEART DISEASE
3. HEART ATTACK DEATHS MORE LIKELY FOR WOMEN WHEN TREATED BY A MALE DOCTOR
4. CDC: PREVENTABLE DEATHS FROM HEART DISEASE AND STROKE (2016)
5. STEM WORKERS AT CRISIS LEVEL

JUNE 2018
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Taking Cardiology Clinical
Trials to the Next Level: A Call to Action

Physicians previously perceived heart disease to be a man's disease; yet, since 1984, more women have died of ischemic heart disease. Because women who develop obstructive coronary heart disease and heart failure tend to do...
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MAY 2018
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The Impact of Sex and Gender on Innovation and Health Technology
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Dima ElissaFollow
Neelum Aggarwal
Natalie Ficek
Kyle Mitchell
Sophia Pribus
APRIL 2018
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Ethnicity and the Dementias - 3rd edition
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This 3rd edition of Ethnicity and the Dementias  includes the latest background, assessment, and ethnic-specific guidelines for working with culturally diverse elders with dementia and their family caregivers in the United States.


MARCH 2018
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National Partnership for Action:
NPA Winter 2018 Newsletter


FEBRUARY 2018
Early Alzheimer’s Disease:
Developing Drugs for Treatment Guidance for Industry

earlyalz_feb2018.pdf
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