Aging

What Common Factors Cause Some Old People To Maintain Exceptional Health?

Why do some older people appear to be thriving and others not?   Genetics and bad luck are certainly a factor but elderly people who have a positive outlook, lower stress levels, moderate alcohol consumption, abstention from tobacco, moderate to higher in ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 27 2008 - 12:09pm

Predicting Menopause- Hormone Data Accurate To Within One Year

For many women, including the growing number who choose later-in-life pregnancy, predicting their biological clock's relation to the timing of their menopause and infertility is critically important.   Investigators from the University of Michigan say ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 27 2008 - 4:15pm

MK-677 Effective For Age-Related Frailty, Says Study

Researchers at the University of Virginia Health System report that a daily single oral dose of an investigational drug, MK-677, increased muscle mass in the arms and legs of healthy older adults without serious side effects, suggesting that it may prove s ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 4 2008 - 2:46pm

Beta-Alanine Dietary Sports Supplement Helps Elderly Also

Beta-alanine (BA), a dietary supplement widely used by athletes and body builders, has been proven to increase the fitness levels of a group of elderly men and women. The research, published in Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition, sugg ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 6 2008 - 7:30pm

Genetics Of Aging (and Cancer Resistance Too)

In the November 15th issue of Genes&Development, Dr. Kenneth Dorshkind and colleagues at the David Geffen School of Medicine (UCLA) have identified two genes – p16(Ink4a) and Arf – that sensitize lymphoid progenitor cells to the effects of aging, and c ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 16 2008 - 12:56pm

Tau- The Secret Behind Sharp Memories At An Old Age

Maybe you have an 85-year-old grandfather who still whips through the newspaper crossword puzzle every morning or a 94-year-old aunt who never forgets a name or a face. They don't seem to suffer the ravages of memory that beset most people as they age ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 16 2008 - 1:01pm

Determining Physiological Age- Biomarker Discovery May Be The Key

Determining chronological age is easy- count forward from birth. Establishing physiological age, especially in humans, is purely subjective because it's based on how someone looks or functions. Research in nematode worms could lead to the development ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 20 2008 - 1:45am

Caring For Ailing Spouse May Prolong Your Life

Older people who spent at least 14 hours a week taking care of a disabled spouse lived longer than others. That is the unexpected finding of a University of Michigan study forthcoming in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 28 2008 - 12:30am

Did These Researchers Discover A Universal Mechanism For Aging?

Researchers have discovered that DNA damage decreases a cell's ability to regulate which genes are turned on and off in particular settings. This mechanism, which applies both to fungus and to us, might represent a universal culprit for aging.  " ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 2 2008 - 2:30am

New slogan idea for Pifzer: "Not a bad way to die"

London's Daily Telegraph features a great article that reads like a country music song- old couple, still in love after all these years, old guy still wants to express his love, old lady gets scared and calls the cops, family gets involved. Here' ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Dec 2 2008 - 11:03am