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The Friedrich Schiller University Jena receives funding for Cluster of Excellence

The Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany) was granted funding for one Cluster of Excellence. As the Excellence Commission announced today in Bonn, Jena's proposal for the cluster 'Balance of the Microverse' is among the 57 selected consortia which will be funded by the German Excellence Strategy for the following seven years.

28 Sep 2018

High levels of fibroblast growth factor 23 may affect brain health

Scientists at the Medical University of South Carolina have uncovered mechanisms by which high levels of a hormone called FGF23 can reduce brain health.

28 Sep 2018

Medicare eases readmission penalties against safety-net hospitals

On orders from Congress, Medicare is easing up on its annual readmission penalties on hundreds of hospitals serving the most low-income residents, records released last week show.

28 Sep 2018

Rochester and Minnesota team receives grant to create center for child maltreatment studies

The University of Rochester's Mt. Hope Family Center, in conjunction with the University of Minnesota's Institute for Translational Research in Children's Mental Health, has received a multi-million-dollar grant to create a national center for child maltreatment studies, becoming one of only three academic institutional partnerships in the United States to receive this prestigious award from the National Institutes of Health.

28 Sep 2018

Rutgers study uncovers new mechanism linked to Alzheimer's and traumatic brain injury

Rutgers researchers have discovered a new mechanism that may contribute to Alzheimer's disease and traumatic brain injury. They now hope to launch a clinical trial to test the treatment in humans.

27 Sep 2018

UH pharmacologist receives NIH grant to improve kidney function in older people

Mohammad Asghar, associate professor of pharmacology at the University of Houston, has been awarded $459,000 from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Aging to improve kidney function in people 65 and older, a population at higher risk for developing impaired kidney function.

27 Sep 2018

Researchers to build 3D map of human cells and tissues

Researchers at CMU are working with the NIH to build 3D map of human cells and tissues as part of the Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP).

26 Sep 2018

Study reveals changes in functioning of older individuals’ central nervous system

The central nervous system of older individuals responds to movement and initiates muscular contraction differently compared to young individuals.

26 Sep 2018

Researchers to explore sex differences in cardiovascular and renal physiology

A person's sex can be a defining factor in how well--or how poorly--they respond to disease, therapy and recovery. Experts at the forefront of sex-specific research will convene next week at the sixth APS conference on sex differences in cardiovascular and renal physiology.

26 Sep 2018

KTU researchers engineer experimental bone to help treat osteoarthritis patients

Researchers from the Faculty of Chemical Technology, Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania are developing an artificial bone, which can be used for treating of the most common joint disease - osteoarthritis.

26 Sep 2018

New research finds link between impaired vision, hearing, and cognition

Experts at a prestigious medical conference hosted by the American Geriatrics Society and funded by the National Institute on Aging hope their work--reported today in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society--will have colleagues seeing eye-to-eye on an important but under-researched area of health care: The link between impaired vision, hearing, and cognition

25 Sep 2018

Immunologist to study how Chikungunya causes devastating effects in older adults

Emerging viruses such as Ebola, SARS and swine flu are familiar sounding, yet seemingly distant diseases to many Americans. But that's not the case with Chikungunya, a mosquito-borne virus that recently struck close to home and has proven deadly for the elderly.

25 Sep 2018

Human-oriented perspective needed to better understand Parkinson's disease

Analysis published in Drug Discovery Today reveals the gap between animal models of Parkinson's disease and our understanding of the neurodegenerative processes underlying the disease, and calls for the implementation of modern, human biology-based technologies to better understand pathological processes and improve treatment outcome.

25 Sep 2018

Fracture causes bone density losses throughout the body

Breaking a bone causes bone density losses throughout the body, not just close to the site of the fracture, and primarily around the time of the fracture, two new studies from UC Davis Health show.

25 Sep 2018

Gene therapy approach could help treat mitochondrial diseases

Researchers have developed a genome-editing tool for the potential treatment of mitochondrial diseases: serious and often fatal conditions which affect 1 in 5,000 people.

24 Sep 2018

Number of people with respiratory diseases likely to increase if UK air pollution remains unchecked

The number of people suffering from respiratory indications and the severity of those already suffering from the various diseases is expected to increase if air pollution in the UK goes unchecked, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

24 Sep 2018

Place where older adults live before hospitalization may affect risk of readmission

Forty per cent of older adults who leave hospital are discharged to home care or a long-term care facility, which, combined with where they lived before hospitalization, affects their risk of readmission, found a study published in CMAJ.

24 Sep 2018

Cytox, AIBL announce expanded agreement to assess genetic risk for Alzheimer’s

Cytox, a precision medicine company which today is commercializing polygenic risk scoring approaches for assessing genetic risk for developing Alzheimer's disease and other neurological diseases, has announced it has expanded its research collaboration with the Australian Imaging, Biomarker & Lifestyle Flagship Study of Ageing to test new algorithms for identifying the pre-symptomatic and mild cognitively impaired people most at risk to progress to AD.

24 Sep 2018

NIMHD-funded study to focus on hurricane-related psychosocial stressors

Eight new awards will help researchers examine the health impacts in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands following the physical damage and community-level hardships left by Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017.

24 Sep 2018

Public awareness of urological conditions found to be alarmingly low across Europe

Public awareness of urological conditions is alarmingly low throughout Europe. Results of a new international survey of more than 2,500 responders from 5 countries show that women know more about men's health issues than men do, men have poor knowledge of key urological symptoms and don't take early signs of potentially life-threatening urological conditions seriously.

24 Sep 2018

Aging News and Research

The Friedrich Schiller University Jena receives funding for Cluster of Excellence

High levels of fibroblast growth factor 23 may affect brain health

Medicare eases readmission penalties against safety-net hospitals

Rochester and Minnesota team receives grant to create center for child maltreatment studies

Rutgers study uncovers new mechanism linked to Alzheimer's and traumatic brain injury

UH pharmacologist receives NIH grant to improve kidney function in older people

Researchers to build 3D map of human cells and tissues

Study reveals changes in functioning of older individuals’ central nervous system

Researchers to explore sex differences in cardiovascular and renal physiology

KTU researchers engineer experimental bone to help treat osteoarthritis patients

New research finds link between impaired vision, hearing, and cognition

Immunologist to study how Chikungunya causes devastating effects in older adults

Human-oriented perspective needed to better understand Parkinson's disease

Fracture causes bone density losses throughout the body

Gene therapy approach could help treat mitochondrial diseases

Number of people with respiratory diseases likely to increase if UK air pollution remains unchecked

Place where older adults live before hospitalization may affect risk of readmission

Cytox, AIBL announce expanded agreement to assess genetic risk for Alzheimer’s

NIMHD-funded study to focus on hurricane-related psychosocial stressors

Public awareness of urological conditions found to be alarmingly low across Europe

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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