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Innovative system helps medical staff to accurately evaluate patients’ risk of falling

The Biomechanics Institute of Valencia's Universitat Politècnica has developed the FallSkip system to accurately help medical staff evaluate the risk of falling for each patient (specially relevant for elderly people).

23 Jan 2018

Researchers develop new indicator for assessing active aging

Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland have developed a new indicator for assessing active aging.

22 Jan 2018

Many Indians put away treating orthopedic problems

While India has witnessed an increase in life expectancy thanks to advances in medical science and technology, what is also increasing is the number of people leading sedentary lifestyles and eating food that is unhealthy.

22 Jan 2018

Scientists identify protein biomarkers to track patients with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome

Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS) is an extremely rare fatal genetic disorder which causes sufferers to age prematurely.

19 Jan 2018

Researchers propose new regulation mechanism linked to action of SirT6 on chromatin

Researchers from the Epigenetics and Cancer Biology Program of the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, led by Dr. Àlex Vaquero, have proposed a new regulation mechanism of the NF-κB pathway, which is associated with accelerated cellular aging, based on the analysis of the function of the SirT6 protein.

19 Jan 2018

Sex steroid hormone fluctuations may have direct effects on eye physiology and AMD

Gender-based differences may influence several ocular conditions, suggesting that fluctuations in sex steroid homeostasis may have direct effects on eye physiology and the pathogenesis of conditions like Age-Related Macular Degeneration.

18 Jan 2018

Home care agencies often wrongly deny Medicare help to the chronically ill

Colin Campbell needs help dressing, bathing and moving between his bed and his wheelchair. He has a feeding tube because his partially paralyzed tongue makes swallowing "almost impossible," he said.

18 Jan 2018

A call for proposals to explore gender factor in health, innovation and climate change

The GENDER-NET Plus consortium, composed of 16 partners in 13 countries and coordinated by the CNRS, is calling for proposals for research to explore the gender factor in the fields of health, innovation and climate change.

17 Jan 2018

Study reveals how devastating mitochondrial diseases strike families without any previous history

Researchers have shown for the first time how children can inherit a severe - potentially fatal - mitochondrial disease from a healthy mother.

15 Jan 2018

Worsening of anxiety symptoms may be early indicator of Alzheimer's disease

A new study suggests an association between elevated amyloid beta levels and the worsening of anxiety symptoms. The findings support the hypothesis that neuropsychiatric symptoms could represent the early manifestation of Alzheimer's disease in older adults.

12 Jan 2018

Research provides insights into mechanisms governing healthy longevity

Keio University Global Research Institute, Tokyo publishes the January 2018 issue of KGRI Research Frontiers that includes researcher video profiles of Keio University researchers and research highlights from high impact publications including 'Regenerative medicine needs collaboration in and out of science in order to face current and future challenges; ‘Does eating fish protect you from depression?’; ‘Insights into the molecular mechanisms leading to kidney dysfunction in diabetic patients’; and ‘Ageing to 100 and beyond: Insights from demographic, phenotypic and genetic studies.

12 Jan 2018

Dire view from within accident and emergency wards of England and Wales

The heads of accident and emergency (A&E) departments of hospitals all across England and Wales have warned Theresa May that more people are dying prematurely in the corridors of the A&E departments than before.

11 Jan 2018

Insilico Medicine develops new deep-learning based hematological human aging clock

Today, Insilico Medicine, Inc., a Baltimore-based company specializing in the application of artificial intelligence for drug discovery, biomarker development and aging research, announced a publication of a research paper titled "Population-specific biomarkers of human aging: a big data study using South Korean, Canadian and Eastern-European patient populations" in The Journal of Gerontology.

11 Jan 2018

EPF raises awareness campaign to improve oral health

In order to call attention to the growing burden of tooth decay and severe gum disease, and to the simple and cost-effective preventive interventions available to address these conditions, the European Federation of Periodontology is launching the Perio and Caries awareness campaign today.

11 Jan 2018

For elder health, trips to the ER are often a tipping point

Twice a day, the 86-year-old man went for long walks and visited with neighbors along the way. Then, one afternoon he fell while mowing his lawn. In the emergency room, doctors diagnosed a break in his upper arm and put him in a sling.

11 Jan 2018

Chemoradiation improves overall survival in elderly stage III NSCLC patients

Elderly patients with stage III non-small cell lung cancer showed improved overall survival when treated with chemoradiation compared to definitive radiation alone.

10 Jan 2018

Salk scientists identify molecular target of experimental Alzheimer’s drug

The experimental drug J147 is something of a modern elixir of life; it's been shown to treat Alzheimer's disease and reverse aging in mice and is almost ready for clinical trials in humans.

10 Jan 2018

Researchers awarded grant to repurpose FDA-approved drugs for treating Alzheimer's patients

Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and collaborators have received a five-year, $2.8 million grant from the National Institute on Aging to identify FDA-approved medications that could be repurposed to treat Alzheimer's disease.

9 Jan 2018

Never too late to reverse cardiac effects of sedentary aging

Persons in their late middle age are not too late to work on their exercise routines to improve their heart health, finds a new study. Two years of aerobic exercises, at least four to five days a week can reverse the damage caused by years of sedentary non-active life before and also reduce the risk of heart failure. The study was published in the latest issue of the journal Circulation.

9 Jan 2018

Exercise training may help middle-aged people to reduce heart failure risk from sedentary lifestyle

Middle-aged couch potatoes may reduce or reverse the risk of heart failure associated with years of sitting if they participate in two years of regular aerobic exercise training, according to a new study in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation.

8 Jan 2018

Aging News and Research

Innovative system helps medical staff to accurately evaluate patients’ risk of falling

Researchers develop new indicator for assessing active aging

Many Indians put away treating orthopedic problems

Scientists identify protein biomarkers to track patients with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome

Researchers propose new regulation mechanism linked to action of SirT6 on chromatin

Sex steroid hormone fluctuations may have direct effects on eye physiology and AMD

Home care agencies often wrongly deny Medicare help to the chronically ill

A call for proposals to explore gender factor in health, innovation and climate change

Study reveals how devastating mitochondrial diseases strike families without any previous history

Worsening of anxiety symptoms may be early indicator of Alzheimer's disease

Research provides insights into mechanisms governing healthy longevity

Dire view from within accident and emergency wards of England and Wales

Insilico Medicine develops new deep-learning based hematological human aging clock

EPF raises awareness campaign to improve oral health

For elder health, trips to the ER are often a tipping point

Chemoradiation improves overall survival in elderly stage III NSCLC patients

Salk scientists identify molecular target of experimental Alzheimer’s drug

Researchers awarded grant to repurpose FDA-approved drugs for treating Alzheimer's patients

Never too late to reverse cardiac effects of sedentary aging

Exercise training may help middle-aged people to reduce heart failure risk from sedentary lifestyle

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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