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Hypertension drug can extend lifespan and slow aging

Researchers have found that the drug rilmenidine can extend lifespan and slow aging.

23 Jan 2023

Healthy gene found in centenarians can reverse the decline of heart performance in older people

An anti-aging gene discovered in a population of centenarians has been shown to rewind the heart's biological age by 10 years.

23 Jan 2023

Senolytics could be a beneficial therapeutic for COVID neuropathology

Researchers assess the effectiveness of multiple senolytic interventions in removing senescent cells in aged human brain organoids.

22 Jan 2023

Orienteering could be useful as an intervention or preventive measure to fight cognitive decline

The sport of orienteering, which draws on athleticism, navigational skills and memory, could be useful as an intervention or preventive measure to fight cognitive decline related to dementia, according to new research from McMaster University.

20 Jan 2023

Experimental regenerative medicine shows potential to restore bone in an animal

Bone loss is a part of aging that compromises quality of life and movement in many older people, but regenerative treatments to improve their health and well-being have been limited.

19 Jan 2023

$3 million NIH grant to support research on Alzheimer's disease

Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology will use a unique combination of imaging techniques to study Alzheimer's disease on a scale that's never been done before.

19 Jan 2023

How does the brain change with age?

Researchers discussed cellular hallmarks of brain aging and therapeutic interventions to rejuvenate cognitive brain functions.

19 Jan 2023

New program provides innovative models for improving health care

Better coordination beyond purely medical aspects: the National Research Programme "Smarter Health Care" (NRP 74) of the Swiss National Science Foundation shows how resources in the health sector can be used more efficiently.

19 Jan 2023

New research project aims to investigate the effect of late life learning on cognition and aging

The National Health Institute has awarded Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and The American University of Beirut Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine a five-year grant for the Late Life Learning (LLL), Cognition and Aging (3LC) study.

19 Jan 2023

Partial genetic reprogramming might extend lifespan and reverse aging in old mice

Researchers performed age-reversing experiments, in vivo and in vitro, in progeroid mice using gene therapy.

19 Jan 2023

Study shows link between older adults with asthma and depression risk during COVID-19 pandemic

A recent, prospective study of approximately 2,000 older adults in Canada published online this month in the journal Respiratory Medicine found that older adults with asthma were at high risk of depression during the COVID-19 pandemic.

19 Jan 2023

Researchers use single-cell RNA-sequencing to study the aging peripheral blood in mice

A new research paper was published on the cover of Aging (listed as "Aging (Albany NY)" by Medline/PubMed and "Aging-US" by Web of Science) Volume 15, Issue 1, entitled, "Single-cell transcriptomics of peripheral blood in the aging mouse."

18 Jan 2023

Body dissatisfaction found to be primary cause of eating disorders

Eating disorders are stereotypically associated with adolescents and young adults. Growing evidence, however, suggests that these conditions can occur at any time during a woman's lifespan, including at midlife.

18 Jan 2023

What older Americans need to know about taking Paxlovid

A new coronavirus variant is circulating, the most transmissible one yet. Hospitalizations of infected patients are rising. And older adults represent nearly 90% of U.S. deaths from covid-19 in recent months, the largest portion since the start of the pandemic.

18 Jan 2023

Exposure to World Trade Center particulate matter accelerates cognitive deterioration in mice model of Alzheimer's

Mice exposed to World Trade Center dust exhibit a significant impairment in spatial recognition and short- and long-term memory, as well as changes in genes related to immune-inflammatory responses and blood-brain barrier disruption, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published January 17 in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.

17 Jan 2023

Modification to Hospital Elder Life Program expands delirium prevention

A new study published in the Journal of American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) found that modifying a well-established and highly successful delirium prevention program for use when in-person or face-to-face interactions are limited or restricted is both feasible and acceptable to hospital staff and patients.

17 Jan 2023

Aging News and Research

Hypertension drug can extend lifespan and slow aging

Healthy gene found in centenarians can reverse the decline of heart performance in older people

Senolytics could be a beneficial therapeutic for COVID neuropathology

Orienteering could be useful as an intervention or preventive measure to fight cognitive decline

Experimental regenerative medicine shows potential to restore bone in an animal

$3 million NIH grant to support research on Alzheimer's disease

How does the brain change with age?

New program provides innovative models for improving health care

New research project aims to investigate the effect of late life learning on cognition and aging

Partial genetic reprogramming might extend lifespan and reverse aging in old mice

Study shows link between older adults with asthma and depression risk during COVID-19 pandemic

Researchers use single-cell RNA-sequencing to study the aging peripheral blood in mice

Body dissatisfaction found to be primary cause of eating disorders

What older Americans need to know about taking Paxlovid

Exposure to World Trade Center particulate matter accelerates cognitive deterioration in mice model of Alzheimer's

Modification to Hospital Elder Life Program expands delirium prevention

Study shows the modulatory effect of resistance training on the endoplasmic reticulum in older adults

Women with larger muscle mass have lower arterial stiffness from youth to middle age, study finds

Rural seniors benefit from pandemic-driven remote fitness boom

Better management of emotions could help limit neurodegeneration

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

Expanding access to NMR with the Fourier 80 Duo

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