Aging

Think You Have Alzheimer's? You May Be Right

No one knows you like you know yourself so if you think your memory is slipping, you may be onto something. Self-reported memory complaints are strong predictors of clinical memory impairment later in life.   Richard Kryscio, PhD, Chairman of the Departme ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 25 2014 - 8:30am

Genetic Risk Factors For Stroke Identified

Stroke is one of the leading causes of death worldwide and while there are obvious environmental factors such as diet, exercise and behavior, many lines of evidence suggest that the risk of stroke is heritable. Yet until now, only a small number of genes ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 24 2014 - 5:47pm

Men Twice As Likely As Women To Die After A Hip Fracture

A new paper from the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) says that one-third of all hip fractures worldwide occur in men, with mortality rates as high as 37% in the first year following fracture. This makes men twice as likely as women to die afte ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 11 2014 - 10:06am

Free Radicals Unresolved- The Elusive Cause Of Aging Remains Elusive

A few months ago, a Chinese team writing in Nature claimed to have found the cause for why organisms age, but a new group refuted a basic assumption of the Nature article.  ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 24 2014 - 8:11am

Too Much Milk Linked To Higher Osteoporotic Fractures

A diet rich in milk products is promoted as strengthening bones and reducing the likelihood of osteoporotic fractures, but dairy lobby marketing aside, actual research related to the benefits of milk for the prevention of fractures or influence on mortali ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 29 2014 - 9:56am

Aging Brains Aren't Necessarily Declining Brains

It's not all bad news for older brains. Credit: Shutterstock By Angela Gutchess, Brandeis University ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 31 2014 - 9:06am

Terminal Illness: The Top 5 Things To Talk About

What are the most important discussions to have among doctors, patients and families? It seems obvious to just ask but there is a gap between what patients would like and the care they actually receive, according to a paper in the Canadian Medical Associa ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 3 2014 - 2:50pm

Postpone Brain Aging With A High-Fat Diet

There's a new reason not to go on a low-fat diet. The signs of brain aging can be postponed in mice if placed on a high-fat diet, which opens up the possibility for treatment of patients with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.  When we ge ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 6 2014 - 9:00am

Gender Bias In Osteoporosis Screening

Each year nearly 2,000,000 Americans suffer osteoporosis-related fractures but after it happens, 53 percent of women received Dual X-ray Absorptiometry, the preferred technique for measuring bone mineral density and therefore osteoporosis, compared with o ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 5 2014 - 3:30pm

Supercentenarians- World's Oldest Living People Get Whole-Genome Sequences Published

17 genomes of supercentenarians, people living beyond 110 years of age, haven't led us any closer to discovering protein-altering variants significantly associated with extreme longevity, according to a study in PLOS ONE by Hinco Gierman from Stanfor ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 12 2014 - 3:38pm