Aging

Medicare Recipients Overspend By Not Choosing The Cheapest Prescription Plan

Implemented in 2006,  Medicare prescription drug benefit (Part D) spent $65.8 billion for prescription drugs in 2011, according to the Congressional Budget Office. But Medicare beneficiaries are overpaying by hundreds of dollars annually because of difficu ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 10 2012 - 11:30am

Positive CHMP Opinion For Mirabegron In Treatment Of Overactive Bladder Symptoms

The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has adopted a positive opinion, recommending the granting of a marketing authorization for BETMIGA[(mirabegron) for the symptomatic treatment of urgency, incr ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 21 2012 - 10:00am

Fertility In Older Women May Be Helped By Putrescine Water

A researcher has discovered a critical reason why women experience fertility problems as they get older. The solution could be simple — putrescine water. Putrescine is naturally produced in mammals by an enzyme called ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) and is ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 26 2012 - 4:05pm

Metabolic Reprogramming For Aging

We'll never cure things that shorten life span, like cancer and aging, but a roadmap to under cells at the molecular level might one day help push them to the background, and so a team of researchers at University of Wisconsin-Madison have created an ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 2 2012 - 5:30am

Benzodiazepines: Widely Used Sleeping Pills Linked To Higher Fatal Pneumonia Risk

 Benzodiazepines, the commonly prescribed sleeping pills and sedatives, may increase the risk of contracting pneumonia by as much as 50% and increase the risk of dying from it, suggests a new paper.  Benzodiazepines have a wide range of uses and are commo ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 5 2012 - 9:14pm

Can Diet Lead To Epigenetic Effects And Less Cancer?

Genetic research has a great deal of benefit but its mysteries, such as the lack of identified genetic determinants that explain heritability of complex traits, leave a lot of biology open to speculation, like that voting for one candidate may be 'bi ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 6 2012 - 1:00pm

Paradox Of Aging: Older People Report Better Cognitive Functioning, Well-Being

Presently, there are about 40 million Americans over the age of 65, with the fastest-growing segment of the population over 80 years old. Traditionally, aging has been viewed as a period of progressive decline in physical, cognitive and psychosocial funct ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 8 2012 - 11:30am

We're All Living Longer, But Not All Better

Globally, people are living longer and lifespans have increased dramatically in the past 40 years, but the increased life expectancy is not benefiting everyone.  Adult males from low- and middle-income countries are most notably falling behind. The averag ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 14 2012 - 5:28pm

The Palm Tree Of Eternal Life?

The goal of science is to explain the world according to natural laws- and then sometimes to break those rules. And there is no greater rule than that people age and die.  But we mitigate and prevent life-threatening diseases and we have increased life sp ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 19 2012 - 11:12am

Obesity Paradox In Seniors Doesn't Exist: It's Bad At Any Age, Says Study

You don't see many really old, obese people whereas you see a lot of old thin people. It is reasonable to assume, exceptions aside, that obesity kills.  Unless you reach a certain age, it has been said. When it comes to seniors, research has reported ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 5 2013 - 12:31pm