Aging

Do Environmental Toxins Make You Older?

Why are some 75-year-olds downright spry while others can barely get around?  Some people who smoke look old from a young age while others don't. Part of the explanation, say researchers writing in Trends in Molecular Medicine is differences from one ...

Article - News Staff - May 28 2014 - 2:46pm

Trauma Treatment For The Elderly: White Patients Impacted Most

Black trauma patients over the age of 65 are 20 percent less likely to die than white seniors, according to a report in JAMA Surgery. ...

Article - News Staff - May 28 2014 - 6:47pm

Diabetes Drug Metformin Slows Aging, Says PNAS Study

A study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences says that metformin, the world's most widely used anti-diabetic drug, slows aging and increases lifespan.  In their experiments, the researchers tease out the mechanism behind metformin' ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 2 2014 - 3:29pm

Get Sleep Now Or Your Brain Is Going To Age Poorly

A new paper based on an analysis of sleep and cognitive (brain function) data from 3,968 men and 4,821 women who took part in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) indicates that sleep problems are associated with worse memory and executive func ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 28 2014 - 1:25pm

Estradiol Hormone Levels At Midlife Linked To Heart Disease Risk In Women

As hormone levels change during the transition to menopause, the quality of a woman's cholesterol carriers degrades, leaving her at greater risk for heart disease, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Hea ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2014 - 10:30am

Exercise Is The Best Medicine At Any Age- But Especially For Women In Old Age

Women would benefit from being prescribed exercise as medicine, according to a study finding that moderate to high intensity activity is essential to reducing the risk of death in older women. Professor Debra Anderson, from Queensland University of Techno ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 13 2014 - 1:24pm

You Can Avoid Getting Cancer As You Age- Study

Cancer, it is said, is nature's way of telling us to 'get the hint'. At a certain age, we all have more friends who get cancer. The older we get, the more often it happens. Even if we somehow slow aging, we would end up with cancer eventual ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 14 2014 - 10:13am

Acupuncture Works To Reduce Menopause Hot Flashes- Meta-analysis

2,500 years after acupuncture- inserting needles into the body to control energy flow- was first used by the ancient Chinese, it remains in the realm of alternative medicine. Some people swear by it, just like some swear by Atkins Diets and homeopathy, bu ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 14 2014 - 2:17pm

Fish Oil Supplements Reduce Cognitive Decline, Improve Memory- Retrospective Study

Over 5 million people in the U.S. have Alzheimer's disease. It is the most common form of dementia and is the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S. Desperate families latch onto just about any possible treatment, including supplements. Do they wor ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 15 2014 - 1:28pm

Sepsis Survival: Obesity Paradox

Though being overweight and obese is linked to many health issues, everything from sleep apnea and an incredibly broad metabolic syndrome designation to stranger categories like pre-diabetes, there are lots of instances where obese people survive better a ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 10 2014 - 11:00am