Today's Health Links November 13, 2013

Tailored pre-transplant therapy boosts survival rate in rare immune deficiency
Chronic Granulomatous Disease is a rare immune deficiency that is life-threatening. Tailored doses of the pre-transplant drug therapy boosts survival rates to over 90%.
Research may improve early detection of dementia
Using scores obtained from cognitive tests, researchers think they have developed a model that could help determine whether memory loss in older adults is benign or a stop on the way to Alzheimer’s disease.
Obese older women at higher risk for death, disease, disability before age 85
Obesity and a bigger waist size in older women are associated with a higher risk of death, major chronic disease and mobility disability before the age of 85, according to a study.