Emma Nichols

2 months ago | healthecareers.com | Emma Nichols

As with most areas of medicine, advances in infectious diseases are accelerating at a rapid clip, and it’s understandable that as an infectious disease professional, you might wonder about the best way to keep up. Here are some strategies for what to focus on and resources to help you do that. First of all, let’s address the main reason you would want to keep up—impact on patient outcomes.

2 months ago | drc.bmj.com | David Flood |Yuan Zhang |Emma Nichols |Chihua Li

While diabetes has long been associated with increased mortality in high-income countries, contemporary and cross-national estimates of this association have been limited by several factors. We therefore aimed to answer the question of how diabetes impacts all-cause mortality among middle-aged and older adults (aged 51 years or greater) in China, England, Mexico, rural South Africa, and the USA?

Apr 3, 2024 | thelancet.com | Emma Nichols |Jennifer Rabin

Poor motor function, including gait dysfunction, is often observed in people with dementia. 1O'Keeffe ST Kazeem H Philpott RM Playfer JR Gosney M Lye M Gait disturbance in Alzheimer's disease: a clinical study. Recent evidence suggests that poor motor function might even precede the onset of dementia. 2Collyer TA Murray AM Woods RL et al. Association of dual decline in cognition and gait speed with risk of dementia in older adults. ,  3Nyul-Toth A DelFavero J Mukli P et al.