How do you test for Alzheimer’s? Have COVID vaccine guidelines changed? Are men more lonely than women? How many adults are lonely? Is measles still going around?

Covering measles cases in the U.S., new Alzheimer’s blood test, FDA warning for allergy medication, changes to new COVID vaccines, and the effects of loneliness with AMA’s Vice President of Science, Medicine and Public Health, Andrea Garcia, JD, MPH. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

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