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Seniors Headlines
Hunger Among Seniors In The USA Rose 78% In Ten Years
8.3 million (14.85%) seniors in the United States face the threat of hunger, say researchers at the University of Illinois. From 2001 to 2010, the incidence of hunger among seniors has risen by 78%, and by 34% since the onset of the recession in 2007...
Fri, 18 May 2012 15:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Surgical Vs. Nonsurgical Treatment For Cervical Spine Fracture
For older adults with "C2" fractures of the upper (cervical) spine, surgery and nonsurgical treatment provide similar short- and long-term outcomes, reports a study in the May issue of Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health...
Fri, 18 May 2012 01:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Older People With Chronic Leukemia May Benefit From Experimental Agent
The experimental drug ibrutinib (PCI-32765) shows great promise for the treatment of elderly patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), according to interim findings from a clinical trial. The phase I/II trial, co-led by researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J...
Fri, 18 May 2012 01:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Fatal Falls Increase For Older Adults
The recent dramatic increase in the fall death rate in older Americans is likely the effect of improved reporting quality, according to a new report from the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy...
Thu, 17 May 2012 01:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Dementia Sufferers More Likely To Die At Home Than In Nursing Homes
A new study from the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University has found that, at time of death, individuals with dementia are more likely to be living at home than in a nursing home. This contradicts the commonly held view that most individuals with dementia in the United States eventually move to nursing homes and die there...
Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
US Seniors Are Going Hungry
A new study that looked at the hunger trends over a 10-year period found that 14.85 percent of seniors in the United States, more than one in seven, face the threat of hunger. This translates into 8.3 million seniors...
Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Pressure Ulcer Risk May Be Increased By Gastric Feeding Tubes
A new study led by Brown University researchers reports that percutaneous endoscopic gastric (PEG) feeding tubes, long assumed to help bedridden dementia patients stave off or overcome pressure ulcers, may instead make the horrible sores more likely to develop or not improve. The analysis of thousands of nursing home patients with advanced dementia appears in the Archives of Internal Medicine...
Tue, 15 May 2012 04:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Scientists Successfully Test The First Gene Therapy Against Aging-Associated Decline
A number of studies have shown that it is possible to lengthen the average life of individuals of many species, including mammals, by acting on specific genes. To date, however, this has meant altering the animals' genes permanently from the embryonic stage - an approach impracticable in humans...
Tue, 15 May 2012 02:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Changes In Flies Parallel Sundown Syndrome Which May Be Due To High Dopamine Levels
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania researchers have discovered a mechanism involving the neurotransmitter dopamine that switches fruit fly behavior from being active during the day (diurnal) to nocturnal...
Tue, 15 May 2012 01:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Cancer In The Elderly: Research Fails To Keep Up With Demographic Change
New research showing that almost half of 13,000 patients with head and neck cancers had other health-related problems at the same time was one of the presentations in a special session at the 31st conference of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO 31) [1]. The session highlighted the effect of the demographic time bomb caused by an increasingly ageing population...
Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
The Naked Mole-Rat's Good Health Likely Tied To Effective Removal Of Damaged Proteins
The naked mole-rat, a curiously strange, hairless rodent, lives many years longer than any other mouse or rat. Scientists at The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio's Barshop Institute of Longevity and Aging Studies continue to explore this mystery...
Mon, 14 May 2012 01:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Cardiac Surgery To Repair Mitral Valve Sees Improved Survival Rates
Patients with mitral regurgitation, a type of valvular heart disease common in the elderly, are living longer after surgery, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes...
Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Genes And Vascular Risk Modify Effects Of Aging On Brain And Cognition
Efforts to understand how the aging process affects the brain and cognition have expanded beyond simply comparing younger and older adults. "Everybody ages differently...
Sat, 12 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Topical Aganirsen Found To Be Active In Retinal Disease
Gene Signal, a company focused on developing innovative drugs to manage angiogenesis based conditions, has announced that positive data from a study of aganirsen (GS-101, eye drops) in a nonhuman primate model of choroidal neovascularization has been presented at the 2012 ARVO Annual Meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida...
Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
In Mouse Model, Delayed Female Sexual Maturity Linked To Longer Lifespan
An intriguing clue to longevity lurks in the sexual maturation timetable of female mammals, Jackson Laboratory researchers and their collaborators report. Jackson researchers including Research Scientist Rong Yuan, Ph.D., had previously established that mouse strains with lower circulating levels of the hormone IGF1 at age six months live longer than other strains...
Tue, 08 May 2012 02:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Muscle Wasting Caused By Aging And Heart Failure Can Be Slowed By Exercise
Exercise can counteract muscle breakdown, increase strength and reduce inflammation caused by aging and heart failure, according to new research in Circulation, an American Heart Association journal. The benefits for heart failure patients are similar to those for anyone who exercises: there's less muscle-wasting, and their bodies become conditioned to handle more exercise...
Tue, 08 May 2012 02:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Problems In Transport Of Donated Human Retina Led Researchers To Discover New Treatment Path For Eye Disease
Sloppy shipping of a donated human retina to an Indiana University researcher studying a leading cause of vision loss has inadvertently helped uncover a previously undetected mechanism causing the disease. The discovery has led researchers to urge review of how millions of dollars are spent investigating the cause of a type of age-related macular degeneration called choroidal neovascularization...
Tue, 08 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
First Oral Agent To Quell Invasive Macular Degeneration, Restore Lost Vision
There may be new found hope for patients whose vision is threatened when medicine injected directly into the eyes fails to cause abnormal blood vessels to recede. While injectable drugs called angiogenesis (an-gee-oh-jen-esis) inhibitors are considered a modern miracle and have become the standard of care for patients with the fast-progressive form of macular degeneration, they are not foolproof...
Mon, 07 May 2012 01:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Rejuvenating Aged Hematopoietic Stem Cells To Make Them Functionally Younger
Researchers have rejuvenated aged hematopoietic stem cells to be functionally younger, offering intriguing clues into how medicine might one day fend off some of the ailments of old age. Scientists at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the Ulm University Medicine in Germany report their findings online in the journal Cell Stem Cell...
Mon, 07 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Older Adults With Diabetes Live Long Enough To Benefit From Interventions And Research
Middle-aged and older adults with diabetes showed substantial survival rates in a new University of Michigan Health System study of retirees. Survival rates were strong even for adults living in nursing homes or who have multiple health issues like dementia and disabilities that make self-managed care for diabetes difficult...
Fri, 04 May 2012 01:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Mouse Model Of Delirium Helps Researchers Understand The Condition's Causes
A new mouse model of delirium developed by Wellcome Trust researchers has provided an important insight into the mechanisms underlying the condition, bringing together two theories as to its causes. Details of the research are published in the Journal of Neuroscience. Delirium is a profound state of mental confusion which can include hallucinations and severe mood swings...
Thu, 03 May 2012 01:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Optimum Vitamin D Blood Level For Reducing Major Medical Risks In Older Adults
In testing older patients' blood vitamin D levels, there's uncertainty about where the dividing line falls between enough and not enough. The threshold amount has become controversial as several scientific societies set different targets. To help resolve this debate, University of Washington researchers conducted an observational study...
Thu, 03 May 2012 01:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Hope For Anti-Aging Pill Restored As Controversy On Life-Extending Red Wine Ingredient Resolved
A study in the May issue of the Cell Press journal Cell Metabolism appears to offer vindication for an approach to anti-aging drugs that has been at the center of heated scientific debate in recent years. The new findings show for the first time that the metabolic benefits of the red wine ingredient known as resveratrol evaporate in mice that lack the famed longevity gene SIRT1...
Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Important Mechanism That Affects The Aging Process Identified
Scientists at Joslin Diabetes Center have identified a key mechanism of action for the TOR (target of rapamycin) protein kinase, a critical regulator of cell growth which plays a major role in illness and aging...
Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Age-Related Memory Loss May Be Reduced By Computer Use And Exercise
You think your computer has a lot of memory ... if you keep using your computer you may, too. Combining mentally stimulating activities, such as using a computer, with moderate exercise decreases your odds of having memory loss more than computer use or exercise alone, a Mayo Clinic study shows...
Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
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