Aging
- Science From The Year In Space Mission Could Help Your Grandparents
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NASA has sent an astronaut to the International Space Station to stay there for a year. ...
Article - The Conversation - Mar 29 2015 - 10:22am
- Rate Of Living Theory: Why Lemurs Won't Increase Our Lifespan
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When Jonas the fat-tailed dwarf lemur died recently in captivity at the ripe age of 29 years, he was the oldest known of his species. But Jonas not only outlasted members of closely related lemur species held in captivity; he also lived much longer than s ...
Article - The Conversation - Apr 5 2015 - 1:03pm
- Sarcopenia: Creating Diagnostic Criteria For Age-Related Muscle Loss
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Osteoporosis is a medical condition characterized by bones becoming brittle and fragile. Age-related loss in muscle mass and strength is considered analogous to osteoporosis but this “sarcopenia” is not recognized as a clinical condition even though it is ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 7 2015 - 1:47pm
- Preserve Memory Using Arts And Crafts (Computers Too)
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In the developed world, we are aging rapidly. People age 85 and older make up the fastest growing age group in the United States and in other countries that trend will also increase. Aging and aging well are not always the same thing, though, and issues l ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 8 2015 - 4:06pm
- People Are Aging More Slowly Than We Think
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Faster increases in life expectancy do not necessarily produce faster population aging, a counterintuitive finding that came as a result of applying new measures of aging developed at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in ord ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 19 2015 - 7:30am
- Half Of U.S. Elderly Now Taking Aspirin
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A national survey suggests that slightly more than half of the older adults in the United States are now taking a daily dose of aspirin, even though its use is not recommended by the Food and Drug Administration for most people who have not yet had a hear ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 21 2015 - 8:00am
- Cardiovascular Risk Factors And Alzheimer's Disease Genetic Overlap
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Researchers have found genetic overlap between Alzheimer's disease (AD) and two significant cardiovascular disease risk factors: high levels of inflammatory C-reactive protein (CRP) and plasma lipids or fats. The findings, based upon genome-wide asso ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 20 2015 - 5:20pm
- Arginine Deprivation May Be A Potential Cause For Alzheimer's
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Some studies find that the immune system, which protects our bodies from foreign invaders, plays a part in Alzheimer's disease, though the actual role of immunity in the disease is a mystery. A new Duke University study in mice suggests that in Alzhe ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 25 2015 - 9:55am
- Why Older People Get More Tendon Injuries
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New research into how tendons age has found that the material between tendon fiber bundles stiffens as it gets older, which leads to older athletes being more susceptible to tendon injuries. ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 20 2015 - 6:47pm
- Patients Wrestle With High Cost Of Arthritis Medications
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The first national investigation of Medicare coverage of biologic disease-modifying drugs (DMARDs) found that in starting a single biologic DMARD, patients face more than $2,700 in co-payments each year before receiving relief from catastrophic coverage. ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 28 2015 - 7:55am
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