Aging

Regional Medicare Spending For Advanced Cancer Doesn't Impact Survival

Regional spending is not linked to differences in survival of patients with advanced cancer, according to an analysis of Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER)-Medicare linked data in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Cancer care ac ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 13 2013 - 10:02am

Balance App: Alzheimer's Care Goes Digital

Alzheimer's research is always big news. The reason is simple: people are living longer and they also want to be living better. While progress in general health issues for seniors marches on, the brain remains trickier stuff. Instead of less Alzheimer ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 2 2013 - 11:09am

Amyloid Proteins May Be Getting Too Much Blame In Alzheimer's

Amyloids are the quintessential bad boys of neurobiology. These clumps of misfolded proteins found in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders muck up the seamless workings of the neurons responsible for mem ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 3 2013 - 4:10pm

Alzheimer's Disease Breakthrough? Scientists Reverse Memory Loss In Animal Model Brain Cells

Researchers have taken a step forward in efforts to help people with memory loss tied to brain disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease. Using sea snail nerve cells, the scientists reversed memory loss by determining when the cells were primed for lear ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 17 2013 - 4:50pm

Sorry, Youngsters: Sugar Daddies And Cougars Are More Myth Than Reality

You've seen it on television; a rich, older man who supports a younger, attractive spouse. And it happens in real life, but it's rare. Instead, a new analysis by economists has found that people married to much younger or much older mates have l ...

Article - News Staff - May 6 2013 - 3:07pm

How Medicare Costs Can Be $180 Billion Lower Over 10 Years

Combining Medicare's hospital, physician, and prescription drug coverage with private supplemental coverage into one health plan could save the government and seniors $180 billion over a decade, according to a new analysis from The Johns Hopkins Bloo ...

Article - News Staff - May 6 2013 - 6:30pm

The Molecular Reason Female Fertility Declines With Age?

Scientists have a new theory as to why a woman’s fertility declines after her mid-30s: As women age, their egg cells become riddled with DNA damage and die off because their DNA repair systems wear out. Defects in one of the DNA repair genes, BRCA1, have l ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 1 2013 - 2:00pm

For Anxious Dementia Patients, Robot Pets May Be A Solution

Interacting with a therapeutic robot companion made people with mid- to late-stage dementia less anxious and also had a positive influence on their quality of life, according to a pilot study PARO, a robotic harp seal, was used to investigate the effect of ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2013 - 10:23am

Awakening Sleepy Skin Stem Cells May Reduce Signs Of Aging

We constantly grow new skin and shed the old but no one is sure exactly how it works. New research says they may provide the answer.  Engineers and biologists at the University of Sheffield say a recent hypothesis- that skin has 'sleeping' stem ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2013 - 11:12am

Gerovital H3: Banned Fountain Of Youth Drug Favored By Hollywood Makes A Comeback

Gerovital H3, one of the "fountain of youth" miracles drugs that crop up once a generation, was banned in the United States in 1982, but the alternative medicine crowd that never let go of homeopathy after hundreds of years is reviving it. Anti- ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2013 - 9:27pm