Aging

FDA Approves Cheetah Reliant(TM) For Non-Invasive Cardiac Output Monitoring (NICOM(R))

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, January 22 /PRNewswire/--- Cheetah Medical Inc. Introduces New System to Measure Accurately, and Non-invasively Patients' Cardiac Output and Other Hemodynamic Parameters Cheetah Medical Inc. announces the U.S. Food and Drug Adm ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jan 22 2008 - 8:30am

Patton Unveils World's First IP Camera Extender At IIPSEC 2008

GAITHERSBURG, Maryland, January 30 /PRNewswire/--- The Model 1173 simplifies IP Camera deployment and lowers installation costs by extending streaming video up to 6000 feet/1830 meters over existing copper infrastructure Patton Electronics-- the leader in ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jan 29 2008 - 7:31pm

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Reduces Cognitive Deficits Of Sleep Deprivation

A Columbia University Medical Center research team has uncovered how stimulation of a particular brain region can help stave off the deficits in working memory associated with extended sleep deprivation. Working memory is a specific form of short-term memo ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 3 2008 - 10:01am

Depression In Elderly: Women More Susceptible Than Men

Older women are more prone to depression and are more likely to remain depressed than older men, according to a new study by Yale School of Medicine researchers in the February Archives of General Psychiatry. The Yale team also found that women were less l ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 6 2008 - 10:30am

Researchers Report 10-Fold Life Extension In Complex Animal

Researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) have reported a 10-fold life extension in the complex animal C. elegans, tiny worms that live in the soil. Reported in the February 2008 issue of the journal Aging Cell, the discovery wa ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 7 2008 - 4:30am

The Juvéderm(R) ULTRA Range: Next-Generation Dermal Filler Treatment For Facial Wrinkles And Lines Now Available In The UK

MARLOW, England, February 8 /PRNewswire/--- UK Launch of new and Gentle Dermal Filler Which Promises to Help Patients Feel the Difference and Provide Long-Lasting Results Allergan, the makers of BOTOX(R) / VISTABEL(R) (botulinum toxin type A), today annou ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Feb 7 2008 - 7:32pm

Clinical Results: 7-Centimeter Reduction In Body Circumference Using Ultrashape

YOQNEAM, Israel and SAN RAMON, California, February 10 /PRNewswire/-- ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Feb 10 2008 - 10:23pm

Hutchinson-Gilford Syndrome

Jonathan Hutchinson (1828-1913) described “A case of congenital absence of hair with atrophic condition of the skin and its appendages”. Lancet, London, 1: 923, 1886. At the same time wrote “Congenital absence of hair and mammary glands with atrophic condi ...

Article - Camillo Di Cicco - Mar 6 2010 - 11:04am

Werner Syndrome

German physician Otto Werner (1879-1936) described the clinical picture of this syndrome in 1904, in four sisters, defining the skin thin, tight, scleroderma-like, that mimics premature aging, with bilateral cataracts associated. Also known by the term &qu ...

Article - Camillo Di Cicco - Mar 6 2010 - 11:01am

The Modifiable Factors In People Who Live The Longest

A healthy lifestyle during the early elderly years—including weight management, exercising regularly and not smoking—may be associated with a greater probability of living to age 90 in men, as well as good health and physical function, according to a repor ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 12 2008 - 8:47pm