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Type of activity may have effect on brain's response to aging

Running and lifting weights might be a crucial step in helping your body delay the effects of aging, but those exercises may be only part of the story.

16 Oct 2019

People with osteoarthritis at higher risk of social isolation

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative disease of the joints, often leading to disability. In older adults with osteoarthritis, they may have problems with mobility, walking, and even doing simple activities due to severe pain, reduced flexibility, and joint swelling.

16 Oct 2019

Pollution tied to silent miscarriage among pregnant women

Miscarriage happens when an embryo or fetus dies before the 20th week of pregnancy. In some cases, pregnant women experience silent miscarriage, also known as missed abortion. It happens when the fetus failed to develop or has died.

16 Oct 2019

Brain's neural activity plays a role in human aging, life span

The brain's neural activity - long implicated in disorders ranging from dementia to epilepsy - also plays a role in human aging and life span, according to research led by scientists in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School.

16 Oct 2019

Study aims to find whether lifestyle changes may counteract a person's genetic risk for dementia

A new study at Rush University Medical Center aims to determine whether a combination of lifestyle changes can protect memory and thinking skills in people at risk of developing dementia.

16 Oct 2019

Young blood may hold the key to treating age-related diseases

In what sounds like a scene from a science fiction movie, researchers in 2005 stitched together old and young mice so they shared a circulatory system.

16 Oct 2019

Stony Brook-led study reveals how proteome collapse process drives cell death and aging

Cells undergo natural aging and death, processes that impact a multitude of cellular factors. A new Stony Brook University-led study, to be published in PNAS, provides a biophysical model that reveals how damage accumulates in the shapes of cellular proteins with age and is a trigger to death.

16 Oct 2019

NIH-funded research consortium aims to advance treatments for frontotemporal lobar degeneration

The National Institutes of Health has awarded a five-year, multi-investigator research grant expected to total more than $63 million to Mayo Clinic and the University of California, San Francisco, to advance treatments for frontotemporal lobar degeneration

16 Oct 2019

Cancer Atlas: Progress in the fight against cancer is not only possible, but achievable

The Cancer Atlas, 3rd edition, a comprehensive global overview of cancer around the globe, concludes that progress in the fight against cancer is not only possible, but achievable.

16 Oct 2019

Amyloid-β protein misfolding proves to be strong risk prediction marker for Alzheimer's

In symptom-free individuals, the detection of misfolded amyloid-β protein in the blood indicated a considerably higher risk of Alzheimer's disease - up to 14 years before a clinical diagnosis was made.

15 Oct 2019

How Is Ophthalmology Changing To Meet New Challenges?

Ophthalmology, a highly dynamic space in vision loss and age-related eye diseases with approximately 1.3 billion people living with vision impairment.

From Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. 15 Oct 2019

Rutgers IFH study explores whether migrating at older age affects mental health

Immigrants age 65 and older tend to have poorer mental health than their counterparts born in the United States. Mental health is a major concern for this rapidly growing segment of the population, and researchers are trying to understand the protective and risk factors.

14 Oct 2019

Signs of aging detected by a simple walking test at age 45

A new study has shown that the speed at which persons over 45 years of age walk could be an indicator of their brain and body age. The team of researchers from Duke University found that persons who walked slowly were more likely to have “accelerated aging” compared to those who walked faster.

14 Oct 2019

Dementia spreads via synaptic connections between brain networks

In a new study, UC San Francisco scientists used maps of brain connections to predict how brain atrophy would spread in individual patients with frontotemporal dementia, adding to growing evidence that the loss of brain cells associated with dementia spreads via the synaptic connections between established brain networks.

14 Oct 2019

Cataract surgery can make a patient 48% safer on the road, study shows

The ability of cataract surgery to restore sight is well known. People say they're stunned by the vibrancy of color after surgery and the improvement in night vision. Some can even reduce their reliance on glasses.

14 Oct 2019

Population aging across the U.S. could lead to pockets of vulnerability to climate change

Population aging projections across the US show a divide between cities and rural areas, which could lead to pockets of vulnerability to climate change.

11 Oct 2019

Researchers shed light on abnormal neuronal activities caused by myelin impairment

The neural circuit basis for motor learning tasks when myelination is impaired has been illuminated for the first time by an international collaboration of university research teams.

11 Oct 2019

Male and female mice show decreased exploratory behavior with age, study finds

Due to strain-specific behavioral idiosyncrasies, inbred mouse strains are suboptimal research models for behavioral aging studies.

11 Oct 2019

Study investigates how aging influences fate of fibro-adipogenic progenitors in skeletal muscles

In adult skeletal muscle, loss of myofiber integrity caused by mechanical injuries or diseases are repaired by resident muscle stem cells, called satellite cells, which promptly exit from quiescence after disruption of muscle architecture to expand, differentiate and drive tissue regeneration.

11 Oct 2019

UTHealth leads effort to enhance Texas Adult Protective Services' financial exploitation investigations

An elder abuse team at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston is partnering with the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, district attorneys, law enforcement agencies, and forensic accounting professionals to make it easier to identify and prosecute individuals who prey on senior citizens to exploit them financially.

11 Oct 2019

Aging News and Research

Type of activity may have effect on brain's response to aging

People with osteoarthritis at higher risk of social isolation

Pollution tied to silent miscarriage among pregnant women

Brain's neural activity plays a role in human aging, life span

Study aims to find whether lifestyle changes may counteract a person's genetic risk for dementia

Young blood may hold the key to treating age-related diseases

Stony Brook-led study reveals how proteome collapse process drives cell death and aging

NIH-funded research consortium aims to advance treatments for frontotemporal lobar degeneration

Cancer Atlas: Progress in the fight against cancer is not only possible, but achievable

Amyloid-β protein misfolding proves to be strong risk prediction marker for Alzheimer's

How Is Ophthalmology Changing To Meet New Challenges?

Rutgers IFH study explores whether migrating at older age affects mental health

Signs of aging detected by a simple walking test at age 45

Dementia spreads via synaptic connections between brain networks

Cataract surgery can make a patient 48% safer on the road, study shows

Population aging across the U.S. could lead to pockets of vulnerability to climate change

Researchers shed light on abnormal neuronal activities caused by myelin impairment

Male and female mice show decreased exploratory behavior with age, study finds

Study investigates how aging influences fate of fibro-adipogenic progenitors in skeletal muscles

UTHealth leads effort to enhance Texas Adult Protective Services' financial exploitation investigations

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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