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New Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Health launched at Mount Sinai

The Mount Sinai Health System and the Hasso Plattner Institute today announced an affiliation that brings together industry leaders with combined expertise in health care delivery, health sciences, biomedical and digital engineering, machine learning and artificial intelligence to rapidly develop digital health products with real-time predictive and preventive capabilities that empower patients and health care providers, and improve health and health outcomes.

29 Mar 2019

Using gene therapy strategies to rejuvenate aging cells and treat osteoarthritis

Aging is a risk factor for the development of osteoarthritis (OA), a chronic disease characterized by degeneration of articular cartilage leading to pain and physical disability.

28 Mar 2019

Researchers identify a more effective treatment for cancer

Researchers from Mount Sinai and IBM have discovered a novel clue in explaining how cancer cells with identical genomes can respond differently to the same therapy.

22 Mar 2019

Nursing home residents benefit from individualized multi-component exercise program

In a Journal of the American Geriatrics Society study of residents at nursing homes, those who participated in a six-month program of individualized and progressive multicomponent exercise at moderate intensity experienced fewer falls than those in a control group that participated in routine activities.

20 Mar 2019

People with chronic periodontitis have higher risk for dementia

Gum disease that goes untreated can become periodontitis. When this happens, the infection that affected your gums causes loss in the bone that supports your teeth.

15 Mar 2019

Experts release new action steps to provide best care for older adults with multiple chronic conditions

Caring for older adults with multiple chronic conditions can create challenging situations. For example, some treatments may be harmful to older adults who live with and manage several chronic conditions. In some cases, several treatments might be available but healthcare providers may not know which are best for a particular individual.

14 Mar 2019

Patients experiment with prescription drugs to fight aging

Dr. Alan Green's patients travel from around the country to his tiny practice in Queens, N.Y., lured by the prospect of longer lives.

6 Mar 2019

Changing drugs, deprescribing do not lower severity and duration of delirium in ICU patients

The results of two new Regenstrief Institute trials published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society underscore and confirm the need to look to options other than medication to lower the duration or severity of delirium in intensive care unit patients.

6 Mar 2019

New AI platform detects neurodegenerative diseases in brain tissue samples

Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence platform to detect a range of neurodegenerative disease in human brain tissue samples, including Alzheimer's disease and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, according to a study conducted at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published in the Nature medical journal Laboratory Investigation.

5 Mar 2019

Newly released national framework identifies obstacles to improving EMS systems

As part of nationwide efforts to improve emergency medical care, researchers at the Mount Sinai Health System, in collaboration with UC San Diego Health, have released a national framework report titled "Promoting Innovations in Emergency Medical Services" that identifies regulatory, financial, and technological obstacles to improving local and state EMS systems.

20 Feb 2019

Mount Sinai awarded $12.5 million NIH grant for research program in aging biology

Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have been awarded a $12.5 million grant from the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, for a five-year program called the U19 that consists of four multidisciplinary projects in aging biology.

14 Feb 2019

NIH "Inclusion Across the Lifespan" policy supports research involving underrepresented age groups

The pipeline of research supporting care as we age is about to look a bit more like the country it serves--and for good reason. Beginning this year, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), America's premier institution for medical research, will for the first time in its history require NIH-funded scholars to eliminate arbitrary age limits in their work, age limits that previously allowed for excluding groups like older people without just cause.

11 Feb 2019

Targeting aging process itself can lead to better and more effective interventions

Medical care for older adults has long focused on preventing and treating chronic diseases and the conditions that come with them.

11 Feb 2019

Prior dengue virus infection increases Zika virus-induced damage during pregnancy

Women who have previously been infected with dengue virus may be at risk for increased damage to their fetuses and placentas if they should later become infected with the Zika virus, researchers from the Department of Microbiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai report.

11 Feb 2019

Clinicians often miss to detect serious health concerns in older adults

Paper is call for action for delivering health care to seniors, said accompanying editorial. In older people, symptoms of pain, depression and fatigue are commonplace. But how common?

11 Feb 2019

New prostate cancer prediction tool has unmatched accuracy

A team of researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California have developed a novel machine-learning framework that distinguishes between low- and high-risk prostate cancer with more precision than ever before.

7 Feb 2019

Gait problems may represent a modifiable risk factor for depression in later life

Older people who were newly diagnosed with depression had a slower walking speed and a shorter step length compared with those without depression in a recent Journal of the American Geriatrics Society study.

6 Feb 2019

Older adults' symptoms of depression can be linked to higher risk of death

As we age, we become more likely to experience symptoms of depression. Research shows that depression's symptoms can be linked to a higher risk for death. Yet often, older adults' symptoms of depression may be missed by healthcare professionals.

6 Feb 2019

New knowledge about high cholesterol treatment for people aged 80 and older

Experts know that in adults younger than 65, having high cholesterol levels in your blood can raise your risk for heart attacks and strokes. However, in adults 80 years old and older, researchers have not--until now--thoroughly studied high cholesterol's impact on heart disease, your ability to function well, or your risk for death.

5 Feb 2019

Gerontologists assess change in patients' functional status after valve replacement procedure

Affecting an estimated one in eight people older than 75, aortic valve stenosis - a narrowing of the heart's main artery - makes the heart work harder to supply the body with blood, potentially limiting patient's activity levels an quality of life. Ultimately, aortic stenosis can lead to stroke, arrhythmia, heart failure and death.

5 Feb 2019

Geriatrics News and Research

New Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Health launched at Mount Sinai

Using gene therapy strategies to rejuvenate aging cells and treat osteoarthritis

Researchers identify a more effective treatment for cancer

Nursing home residents benefit from individualized multi-component exercise program

People with chronic periodontitis have higher risk for dementia

Experts release new action steps to provide best care for older adults with multiple chronic conditions

Patients experiment with prescription drugs to fight aging

Changing drugs, deprescribing do not lower severity and duration of delirium in ICU patients

New AI platform detects neurodegenerative diseases in brain tissue samples

Newly released national framework identifies obstacles to improving EMS systems

Mount Sinai awarded $12.5 million NIH grant for research program in aging biology

NIH "Inclusion Across the Lifespan" policy supports research involving underrepresented age groups

Targeting aging process itself can lead to better and more effective interventions

Prior dengue virus infection increases Zika virus-induced damage during pregnancy

Clinicians often miss to detect serious health concerns in older adults

New prostate cancer prediction tool has unmatched accuracy

Gait problems may represent a modifiable risk factor for depression in later life

Older adults' symptoms of depression can be linked to higher risk of death

New knowledge about high cholesterol treatment for people aged 80 and older

Gerontologists assess change in patients' functional status after valve replacement procedure

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Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

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