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Brain health
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An antibody blocking B12 from reaching the brain was found in over half of unexplained spinal cord cases
Idiopathic myelopathy means the spinal cord is failing and nobody knows why. Testing 32 such patients turned up an autoantibody against the receptor that carries vitamin B12 into cells, in 18 of them.
Sep 7, 2026
Earlier menopause tracked faster memory decline and an earlier Alzheimer's diagnosis
Menopause timing is treated as reproductive history and filed away. Following 2,603 older women, when it happened lined up with how quickly thinking declined decades later, most clearly after surgical menopause.
Sep 7, 2026
Clot removal failed to help in smaller stroke vessels, where it is increasingly being tried
Mechanical thrombectomy transformed treatment of large-vessel stroke, and centers have been extending it to smaller blockages without evidence. The trial that tested it found no benefit and more bleeding.
Sep 7, 2026
Hearing loss tracked worse memory and smaller brain regions; tinnitus tracked neither
Hearing loss is on every list of things that raise dementia risk, and the usual explanation is a brain starved of sound. Scanning 2,144 German adults found the damage sitting partly in the blood vessels instead.
Sep 2, 2026