Aging:
News Articles on Aging, Back Pain, Age Related Disease, Eldercare, Healthy Aging
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Nov 7th, 2009
Men with elevated PSA (prostate specific antigen) levels may not always need prostate biopsy. New findings show that parathyroid hormone levels, that naturally elevate with age and are higher among black men, also correlate with elevated PSA levels. Treating men unnecessarily for prostate cancer can lead to side effects of impotence and urinary incontinence. The findings are the first to show that healthy men do not always need prostate biopsy when prostate cancer screening shows higher PSA levels.
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Nov 6th, 2009
According to estimates, over 100,000 cancer deaths occur from obesity. Excess body fat fuels cancer cells. According to studies, many cancer deaths are preventable through weight management, yet public awareness is low, according to findings from the American Institute of Cancer Research.
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Nov 4th, 2009
New findings link high cholesterol to increased risk of high grade prostate cancer. Researchers from Johns Hopkins have found that lowering cholesterol could protect from aggressive forms of prostate cancer and may lead to prevention and treatment of the disease.
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Nov 2nd, 2009
Some of the major cancer centers across the country now offer their patients yoga as a complementary therapy in an effort to provide a more integrative approach to care.
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Nov 2nd, 2009
Today is the first annual World Pneumonia Day. Almost 100 leading global health organizations from around the world have joined forces to use this day to urge governments to take steps to fight pneumonia, the world’s leading killer of young children.
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Nov 1st, 2009
Vertex has announced the results of their Phase 2 Study C208 which explored the use of telaprevir-based regimen in hepatitis C patients. The study which showed more than 80% of patients responded is to be represented at the 60th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), which began yesterday in Boston.
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Nov 1st, 2009
The MRSA USA600 strain is showing resistance to the powerful antibiotic Vancomycin. Henry Ford researchers say the MRSA strain is causing higher death rates, though the reasons are not entirely clear. The MRSA USA600 strain is five times more likely to lead to death than other strains of MRSA that enter the blood stream.
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Oct 29th, 2009
There is a continual shortage of organs to use for patients on transplantation lists. Help may be on its way in the form of gene therapy used to heal injured lungs which will then be suitable for transplantation.
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Oct 28th, 2009
Researchers studied nematodes to find that cholesterol lowering drugs could help treat cancer. Nematodes do not produce cholesterol, and the researchers found them the perfect subject for studying the possibility that cholesterol drugs, known as statins, might be developed for treatment of cancer.
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Oct 26th, 2009
As of Friday, October 23, 2009, the Arkansas Health Department reports 11 confirmed deaths due to H1N1. There is also a possible twelfth, a 12 year old girl from Van Buren who died Saturday night after testing positive for the H1N1 virus.
