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| Ageing muscle 'given new vigour'
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| Scientists have found a way to give old, tired muscles a new lease of life.
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June 19, 2008 |
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| Aging Adults Have Choices When Confronting Perceived Mental Declines
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| Aging adults may joke about memory lapses and "early Alzheimer's." They may worry when they can't understand a drug plan or lose track of the characters in a novel.
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August 9, 2007 |
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| Aging boomers fuel 'brain fitness' explosion
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| Teenagers cramming for tests and people worried about "senior moments" can now turn to an explosion of brain-assisting video games, such as Nintendo's Brain Age; puzzles that are said to ward off dementia, such as Sudoku and crosswords; and online tips that claim to train the brain.
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June 18, 2008 |
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| Aging Is Satisfying, New Research Shows
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| University of Queensland research is turning conventional wisdom on its head when it comes to grumpy old men and women.
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June 17, 2008 |
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| Anti-Aging Drugs Could Change the Nature of Death
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| A new class of drugs aimed at age-related physical and mental deterioration could change not only the nature of life, but of death.
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December 18, 2007 |
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| Anti-inflammatory Drugs Do Not Improve Cognitive Function In Older Adults
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| The anti-inflammatory drugs naproxen and celecoxib do not appear to improve cognitive function in older adults with a family history of Alzheimer's disease, and naproxen may have a slightly detrimental effect, according to a new article.
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May 14, 2008 |
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| Antidepressant drugs MAY make you live longer
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| American researchers are suggesting that antidepressant drugs may possibly lengthen a person's lifespan.
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November 26, 2007 |
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| Aerobic Exercise Boosts Older Bodies And Minds
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| Around age 50, even healthy older adults begin to experience mild declines in cognition, such as occasional memory lapses and reduced ability to pay attention. Convincing evidence shows that regular exercise contributes to healthy aging, but could the types of exercise a person does influence his or her cognitive fitness?
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April 20, 2008 |
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| Bone Marrow Stem Cell Release Regulated By Brain's Biological Clock
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| Mount Sinai researchers have discovered that the release of blood stem cells from bone marrow is regulated by the brain through the cyclical human biological clock, via adrenergic signals transmitted by the sympathetic nervous system. These new findings point out that the harvest of stem cells for transplantation may be improved by timing it at the peak of their release.
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February 7, 2008 |
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| Carbon Dioxide Emissions Linked To Human Mortality
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| A Stanford scientist has spelled out for the first time the direct links between increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and increases in human mortality, using a state-of-the-art computer model of the atmosphere that incorporates scores of physical and chemical environmental processes.
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January 3, 2008 |
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| Cell Death In Sparrow Brains May Provide Clues In Age-related Human Diseases
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| A remarkable change takes place in the brains of tiny songbirds every year, and some day the mechanism controlling that change may help researchers develop treatments for age-related degenerative diseases of the brain such as Parkinson's and dementia.
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September 20, 2007 |
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| Chronic kidney disease common in U.S. - obesity, diabetes, hypertension and aging population contribute to increase
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| The study found that the overall prevalence of chronic kidney disease increased from 10 percent of the population during a period from 1988-1994 to 13 percent from 1999-2004.
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November 6, 2007 |
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| Drug Companies Rush to Harness Red Wine's Anti-Aging Properties
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| Researchers may be closer to finding the fountain of youth than Ponce de Leon ever was.
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June 4, 2008 |
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| Eating Less May Slow Aging Process
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| Cutting just 300 to 500 calories a day from your diet could be the key to slowing the signs of aging and living longer, according to a new study.
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July 14, 2008 |
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| Educated People In US Living Longer, Less Educated Have Unchanged Death Rate
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| A new study finds a gap in overall death rates between Americans with less than high school education and college graduates increased rapidly from 1993 to 2001.
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May 14, 2008 |
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| Elderly Nutrition Programs Hurt by Gas Price Spike
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| Ruth M. Jones doesn't know what she'd do without hot meals delivered daily to her home. The 81-year-old Charleston widow can't walk or drive since a car crash nine years ago left her stricken by arthritis.
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July 2, 2008 |
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| Fighting Diseases Of Aging By Wasting Energy, Rather Than Dieting -- Works For Mice
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| By making the skeletal muscles of mice use energy less efficiently, researchers report that they have delayed the animals' deaths and their development of age-related diseases, including vascular disease, obesity, and one form of cancer.
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December 6, 2007 |
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| Four Health Behaviors Can Add 14 Extra Years Of Life
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| People who adopt four healthy behaviours -- not smoking; taking exercise; moderate alcohol intake; and eating five servings of fruit and vegetables a day -- live on average an additional fourteen years of life compared with people who adopt none of these behaviours.
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January 9, 2008 |
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| Global aging will peak during the decade 2020 to 2030 and then decelerate
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| The world will experience a significant acceleration in the speed of population aging over the coming years but slow down by mid-century, according to a study by Warren Sanderson, Professor and Co-Chairman of the Department of Economics, Stony Brook University; and colleagues from the World Population Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria.
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January 22, 2008 |
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| Herbal Extract Found To Increase Lifespan
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| The herbal extract of a yellow-flowered mountain plant indigenous to the Arctic regions of Europe and Asia increased the lifespan of fruit fly populations.
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December 10, 2007 |
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| How Dietary Restriction Slows Down Aging
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| Working in yeast cells, the researchers have linked ribosomes, the protein-making factories in living cells, and Gcn4, a specialized protein that aids in the expression of genetic information, to the pathways related to dietary response and aging. The study, which was led by UW faculty members Brian Kennedy and Matt Kaeberlein, appears in the April 18 issue of the journal Cell.
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April 21, 2008 |
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| Human Aging Gene Found In Flies
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| Scientists funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have found a fast and effective way to investigate important aspects of human aging.
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May 12, 2008 |
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| Hydrogen sulfide provides clues to a longer life
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| Hydrogen sulfide, or H2S, the chemical that gives rotten eggs their sulfurous stench - and the same compound that researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center successfully have used to put mice into a state of reversible metabolic hibernation - has now been shown to significantly increase life span and heat tolerance in the nematode worm, or C. elegans.
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December 4, 2007 |
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| In Matters Of Sex And Death, Men Are An Essential Part Of The Equation
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| Stanford scientists show in a forthcoming paper that traditional mating patterns make men the key to explaining away the "wall of death," an enduring puzzle in the study of human longevity.
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August 31, 2007 |
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| Inadequate Sleep May Exacerbate Cellular Aging In The Elderly, Animal Study Suggests
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| The findings suggest that inadequate sleep in the elderly, who normally experience sleep disturbances, could exacerbate an already-impaired protective response to protein misfolding that happens in aging cells.
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June 30, 2008 |
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| Life Expectancy Rises For The Educated; The Less-educated Reap No Benefit
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| It's no secret that over the last few decades, life expectancy in the United States has been rising. However, recent data shows that not everyone has benefited from this encouraging trend.
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March 12, 2008 |
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| New Drug May Help Rescue The Aging Brain
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| But in a long-term study with implications to treat these and other conditions, researchers have found that an experimental drug, taken chronically, has the ability to stem the effects of aging in the rat brain.
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March 31, 2008 |
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| New Fat-based Anti-wrinkle Lotion Slows Down Aging of Skin, Study Shows
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| Topical applications of a naturally occurring fat molecule have the potential to slow down skin aging, whether through natural causes or damage, researchers report.
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June 6, 2008 |
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| No Osteoporosis Drug Proven Best
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| Over a Dozen Drugs Studied; None Emerges as Best Osteoporosis Treatment.
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December 17, 2007 |
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| Not Enough Money, Doctors to Adequately Care for Aging Baby Boomers
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| Millions of baby boomers are about to enter a health care system for seniors that not only isn't ready for them, but may even discourage them from getting quality care.
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April 14, 2008 |
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| Older adults no more distractible than younger adults
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| Despite previous research suggesting that older adults are more distractible, new research shows they are no more distractible than younger adults when asked to focus their attention on their sense of sight or sound, or when asked to switch their attention from one sense to the other.
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November 5, 2007 |
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| Researchers can now determine when a human was born by radiocarbon dating of the human eye lens
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| Using the radiocarbon dating method and special proteins in the lens of the eye, researchers at the University of Copenhagen and Aarhus can now establish, with relatively high precision, when a person was born.
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January 30, 2008 |
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| Risk-of-death Charts By Age And Gender Updated
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| Researchers have updated charts that show an American's risk of dying from a given cause over the next ten years, based on age, sex, and smoking status.
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June 14, 2008 |
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| Study: Female Life Expectancy Down Significantly in 180 U.S. Counties
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| Women's life expectancy declined significantly in 180 U.S. counties, mostly in the deep South and Appalachia, between 1983 and 1999, according to a study being released Tuesday.
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April 22, 2008 |
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| Taking Vitamin D Supplements May Extend Lives
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| Past studies have suggested that deficiencies in vitamin D might be associated with a higher risk of death from cancer, heart disease and diabetes — illnesses that account for 60 percent to 70 percent of deaths in high-income nations, according to background information in the article.
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September 11, 2007 |
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| Testosterone Replacement Theraphy Beneficial In Men 60 And Older, Study Suggests
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| The risk of osteoporosis (bone fracture) in women is highly recognized by the public. Less appreciated is the fact that the disorder also occurs in men. Some two million males have been diagnosed with osteoporosis and another three million are at risk.
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April 9, 2008 |
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| U.S. life expectancy still trails 30 countries
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| For the first time, U.S. life expectancy has surpassed 78 years, the government reported Wednesday.
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June 11, 2008 |
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| U.S. Slipping Down Life Expectancy Rankings
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| Americans are living longer than ever, but not as long as people in 41 other countries.
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August 12, 2007 |
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| Using Anti-cholinergic Drugs May Increase Cognitive Decline In Older People
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| Anticholinergic drugs, such as medicines for stomach cramps, ulcers, motion sickness, and urinary incontinence, may cause older people to experience greater decline in their thinking skills than people not taking the drugs, according to new research.
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April 22, 2008 |
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| Vigorous Exercise Can Help Seniors Avoid Disability
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| Healthy seniors who are physically active and exercise for more than 60 minutes each week can lessen their chances of disability as they age, finds a new long-term study.
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June 7, 2008 |
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| Vitamin E may ward off decline
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| Researchers found people aged over 65 who had lower levels of vitamin E performed worse on tests of basic physical ability.
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January 23, 2008 |
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| World's oldest person dies at 114
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| one Minagawa, who became the world's oldest person earlier this year, has died at a nursing home in southwestern Japan, an official said Tuesday. She was 114.
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August 14, 2007 |
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| World's Oldest Woman Had Normal Brain
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| The findings question the assumption that Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia will inevitably develop, if people live long enough. "Our observations suggest that, in contrast to general belief, the limits of human cognitive function may extend far beyond the range that is currently enjoyed by most individuals, and that improvements in preventing brain disorders of aging may yield substantial long-term benefits," according to a study led by Prof. dr. Gert Holstege of University Medical Centre Groningen, The Netherlands.
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June 11, 2008 |
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