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— Lack of Institutional Support and Knowledge rank as Key Factors A recent systematic review of 283 studies has determined that a lack of institutional backing remains the top reason clinicians hesitate to intervene in addiction cases, as highlighted by the findings. In their analysis, Wilson Compton, MD, MPE, deputy director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and his colleagues reported in JAMA Network Open that 81.2% of the reviewed articles cited the institutional environment as

— Age-Related Outcomes A retrospective analysis involving Medicare patients suggested that hormone therapy in older women with breast cancer was linked to a lower risk of developing dementia. The study showed that breast cancer patients who underwent hormone-modulating therapy had a 7% reduced likelihood of dementia over an average follow-up of 12 years compared with those who didn’t receive the therapy (HR 0.93, 95% CI 0.88-0.98, P=0.005), according to research led by Chao Cai, PhD, from the