Aging:
News Articles on Aging, Back Pain, Age Related Disease, Eldercare, Healthy Aging
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Oct 6th, 2009
Cancer patients can recover faster from surgery if they are given enteral nutrition through a feeding tube, according to new research to be presented Monday at the National Cancer Research Institute Conference.
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Oct 4th, 2009
According to United Nations officials, poor countries are facing explosive outbreaks of the swine flu pandemic. They state that poorer countries need assistance with the H1N1 vaccine. Julie Hall, an expert from the UN’s World Health Organization told a news conference, “We are anticipating that we may well see a different pattern of impact once this virus starts to take off and those explosive outbreaks occur in poorer communities.”
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Oct 3rd, 2009
Historic evidence points to too much aspirin as a contributor to high death tolls during the 1918-1919 flu pandemic. The suggestion of avoiding high doses of aspirin are important given the current H1N1 flu pandemic, and serve as a precautionary when taking drugs, especially aspirin to treat the flu symptoms.
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Oct 2nd, 2009
According to a predictive model, more than half of babies born today could live to be 100 in developing nations. The findings, published in the Lancet, also suggest in addition to living to see age 100, ageing in wealthier countries should be met with less limitations due to modifiable risk factors that can prevent severe disability.
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Oct 1st, 2009
In an early release of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, published on September 30, it was reported that several bacterial infections were linked to h1n1 deaths. Lung tissue samples were available to the CDC from 77 people who died of theH1N1 flu. Bacterial co-infections were found in 29%, aged 2 months to 56 years old.
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Sep 30th, 2009
IDPH reminds Iowans that West Nile and other mosquito-related diseases continue to be a concern in the fall, and remain a threat until the first frost.
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Sep 29th, 2009
Whooping cough is still very much a public health concern; health experts estimate that up to 600,000 cases occur each year in adults alone.
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Sep 29th, 2009
CANCER RESEARCH UK SCIENTISTS have discovered a completely new route by which leukaemia develops.
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Sep 29th, 2009
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Folotyn (pralatrexate), the first treatment for a form of cancer known as Peripheral T-cell Lymphoma (PTCL), an often aggressive type of non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
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Sep 28th, 2009
A team of researchers from Thomas Jefferson University and the University of Delaware have received a grant from the Department of Defense to create a three-dimensional patient imaging system that will allow surgeons to view and touch selected organs and tissues prior to surgery.
