Aging

Leukemia Mutations Linked To Aging, Not Cancer

At the time of diagnosis, hundreds of mutations already exist in leukemia cells but new research has found they are a part of normal aging and are not related to cancer. Even in healthy people, stem cells in the blood routinely accumulate new mutations ove ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 23 2012 - 3:31am

Tips For Great Sex After Prostate Cancer

It's very likely that whichever prostate cancer treatment you choose- prostatectomy surgery, hormone therapy, brachytherapy, external beam radiation, or HIFU (high intensity focused ultrasound)- you will see an impact on your sex life. Exactly how de ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 1 2012 - 10:00pm

FDA Approval Of Subcutaneous Implantable Defibrillator For Patients At Risk Of Sudden Cardiac Arrest

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted Boston Scientific Corporation regulatory approval for its S-ICD(R) System, the world's first and only commercially available subcutaneous implantable defibrillator (S-ICD) for the treatment of patient ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 6 2012 - 4:30pm

Scientists Use Adult Stem Cells To Make Old Muscles Young Again

Researchers have identified a key factor responsible for declining muscle repair during aging, and discovered how to halt the process in mice- using a common drug.  ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 9 2012 - 2:30pm

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