What is it about?
The old TB vaccine, BCG, prevents cognitive loss in a population of elderly bladder cancer patients.
Featured Image
Why is it important?
Cognitive loss is a hallmark of dementia. So any early intervention is exceedingly important.
Perspectives
Many of the risk factors of developing dementia are no0w recognized, but keeping up one's vaccination program has been overlooked.
Charles Greenblatt
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: Intravesical Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) Vaccine Affects Cognition, Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, July 2024, IOS Press,
DOI: 10.3233/jad-240307.
You can read the full text:
Contributors
The following have contributed to this page
