Aging:
News Articles on Aging, Back Pain, Age Related Disease, Eldercare, Healthy Aging
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Oct 27th, 2008
Elderly people who have a positive outlook, lower stress levels, moderate alcohol consumption, abstention from tobacco, moderate to higher income and no chronic health conditions are more likely to thrive in their old age.
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Oct 23rd, 2008
Elderly women can increase muscle strength as much as young women can, a new study from the University of New Hampshire finds, indicating that decline in muscle function is less a natural part of the aging process than due to a decline in physical activity.
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Oct 18th, 2008
TA-65 technology allows the affected cells to become "younger" as they grow older. TA-65 doesn't just stop cell aging, but it reverses it.
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Oct 16th, 2008
The Research Partnership in Cognitive Aging is a newly launched public-private effort to support current and emerging research on age-related changes in the brain and cognition.
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Oct 9th, 2008
Britain's post-war baby boomers, associated throughout their lives with social change, are failing to break new ground in their approach to growing old.
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Sep 17th, 2008
Healthy lifestyle changes may slow down aging by boosting enzyme telomerase levels. Exercise and eat healthy food.
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Sep 9th, 2008
Scientists have identified a way in which the brain's ability to process information diminishes with age, and shown that this break down contributes to the decreased ability to form memories that is associated with normal aging.
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Sep 4th, 2008
The key challenges facing our ageing world will be addressed by international experts in Bristol this week.
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Aug 25th, 2008
The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine announces two important medical education courses in hospice and palliative medicine and a significantly revised book series in keeping with the Academy's ongoing commitment to prevent and relieve pain and suffering during serious illness.
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Jul 26th, 2008
It may be possible to slow down aging process in humans one day as scientists now can control aging in worms.
