Aging:
News Articles on Aging, Back Pain, Age Related Disease, Eldercare, Healthy Aging
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Do you worry about that an elderly loved one may fall and injure themselves? Scientists are working on a "bug" system that may help not only detect falls but help prevent them as well.
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When you are healthy, exercise can help to keep you that way. However, even when you are ill, such as with a disease like cancer, exercise has positive benefits such as improving several factors involved in quality of life and longevity after diagnosis.
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Cancer drugs are in short supply, which could have dire consequences for the future of patient care in the U.S. The reasons for the short supply are multi factorial, according to Dr.David Loeb, a pediatric oncologist. In a new survey, 40% of oncologists said they are seeing their patients die sooner. Sixty-five percent say there may be fewer oncologists in the future.
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A recent study identifies new questions that you can pose as a test to determine whether your parents are developing memory loss that could indicate the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. The following is a summary of the study that includes the new test questions toward discovering your parent’s risk of memory loss and progression toward Alzheimer’s disease.
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Coffee consumption is found by researchers to protect the liver from scarring in patients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).
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One of the concerns with childhood cancer survivors is whether their future offspring may suffer from DNA damage though mutations induced by the chemotherapy drugs taken when the parent was a child.
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Grape seed extract is found in mouse and cell line studies to destroy head and neck squamous cell cancer while leaving healthy cells intact. Researchers plan to begin clinical trials to see if extract of grape seed might be useful as a second line treatment for squamous cell cancer that kills 12,000 people annually.
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Researchers from Ohio State University Center for Clinical and Translational Science are working on a combination treatment for oral cancer using black raspberries and an old breast cancer drug. Using raspberries, combined with the breast cancer drug to treat mouth and oral cavity cancer could offer a non-surgical treatment option for patients battling the deadly type of cancer.
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Three-year-old Isabella Maria Santorum, the daughter of presidential candidate Rick Santorum, has trisomy 18, an often-fatal condition that appears in about 1 out of every 3,000 live births.
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On January 27, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it had approved Inlyta (axitinib), manufactured by Pfizer, Inc., for the treatment of patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (kidney cancer) who have not responded to other medical treatments. Inlyta works by blocking certain proteins, known as kinases, which play a role in tumor growth and cancer progression
