Aging:
News Articles on Aging, Back Pain, Age Related Disease, Eldercare, Healthy Aging
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Aug 13th, 2009
One year after a trio of young adults received gene therapy for an inherited form of blindness, researchers have documented that the patients are still experiencing the same level of remarkable vision improvements previously measured within weeks.
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Aug 13th, 2009
Is there a doctor in the house? How about a geriatrician? If you are age 65 or older, chances are you could benefit from the expert medical advice and care of a geriatrician, yet a severe shortage of doctors serving the aging population may make that a difficult goal.
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Aug 12th, 2009
Researchers have linked another gene to a rare form of diabetes, a finding that could prove beneficial to those with the more common type 2 diabetes.
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Aug 12th, 2009
Scientists have identified a gene that may play a role in the development of type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the body’s insulin-producing cells.
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Aug 12th, 2009
A beloved grandparent gets in the car insisting he is driving down to the local grocery store. Two of the small grandchildren beg him to take them along. He is delighted. The children’s mom and the grandmother think nothing of the situation. Grandpa has been taking some blood pressure medications that his doctor gave him just two day earlier. Older drivers’ drug risks are enormous, yet no one in the health care community has bothered to educate the grandparent or his family.
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Aug 11th, 2009
Researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center say insulin should not be a last resort for diabetes treatment. To help abolish myths about insulin, diabetics should be encouraged by physicians that insulin is a safe and effective way to control weight gain, episodes of low blood sugar and prevent early death from diabetes complications.
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Aug 10th, 2009
Elder self-neglect and abuse are serious, common, and under recognized. There are an estimated 2 million cases of elder self-neglect and abuse in the United States. Self-neglect is defined as the behavior of an elderly person that threatens his/her own health and safety.
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Aug 9th, 2009
Just how heavy should that backpack be when your child goes back to school? A recent study from The Pennsylvania State University says the load limit should be 10 percent of body mass. For all you math majors, that’s 10 pounds for a 100-pound child. Beyond that, your child’s backpack could be packing a whopping dose of back, neck, and shoulder pain.
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Aug 8th, 2009
For seniors age 70 and older, socioeconomic status does not play a major role in the brain's continued ability to function.
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Aug 6th, 2009
Compression fractures are painful. It is estimated that 750,000 people in the United States suffer from these fractures each year. Current treatment has included medical therapy (bracing, analgesics, and physical therapy) and increasingly the surgical procedure vertebroplasty.