Monthly Archives: September 2026
Hormone replacement therapy and dementia risk among postmenopausal women
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 6th September 2026Written by Neil Kurtzman | 6th September 2026 Hormone replacement therapy and dementia risk among postmenopausal women: Identifying responsive subgroups in the UK Biobank is a study published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association. This large observational study found that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) was associated with a modestly lower hazard…
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The Rigoletto Quartet
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 1st September 2026Rigoletto was Verdi’s seventeenth opera. Julian Budden, author of the definitive three-volume study of Verdi’s operas, compares Rigoletto’s place in Verdi’s development with that of Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony. The opera marks the beginning of Verdi’s mature period, in which nearly every subsequent work would be a masterpiece. As Benjamin Britten remarked, “Verdi seemed to have…
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