Diabetes drug-dementia link, and could Covid cause Parkinson's?
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English - October 06, 2020 22:51 - 7 minutes - 6.98 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Science commentator Malvindar Singh-Bains joins Kathryn to look at how a common diabetes drug could be linked to slower cognitive decline and lower the dementia risk in Type-2 diabetics. She also covers research into a case of a man who developed Parkinson's symptoms after contracting Covid-19 - is it a link, or coincidence? Malvindar Singh-Bains is a research fellow at the University of Auckland.