Today's Globe: concussions in female athletes, identical care, large-scale nutrition, tailored knee implants, blood pressure, dementia and old school sex
Note: Elizabeth Cooney is on vacation this week.
Recent studies show female athletes are more likely to get concussions than their male counterparts, and also tend to have more severe symptoms and take longer to recover.
Dr. Victoria McEvoy discusses the dangers of not taking into account cultural differences when treating patients, citing a recent study by Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates' Dr. Thomas Sequist.
In her job as nutrition director of the Greater Boston Food Bank, Tara Hatala is tasked with balancing the diets of 320,000 Bostonians -- but she doesn't get to choose the food, which is all donated.
Like cars, suits and cats, knee implants are going tailor-made.
Researchers found that patients who were on blood pressure medications had a 13 percent reduction in the chance of developing dementia. And older folks are having more sex, and having more fun with it.
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Elizabeth Cooney covers health for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. She
previously reported on business and was an editor at the paper. Earlier in
her career, she edited medical books and journals at Little, Brown, and
worked for Boston magazine.Boston Globe Health and Science staff:
- Karen Weintraub, Deputy Health and Science Editor
- Gideon Gil, Health and Science Editor
- Ishani Ganguli, Short White Coat blogger
- Joshua U. Klein, M.D., Short White Coat blogger
