Geriatric care Stories
- New research challenges the idea that alcohol consumption can be healthy in moderation, and instead suggests that these findings are based on skewed data.
- Women’s brains start to show signs of decline well before they become senior citizens.
- More people die from heart problems during the Christmas season and it has nothing to do with the winter weather.
- Medicare patients were less likely to die or to be readmitted to the hospital when their doctors were women.
- Scientists were recently able to extend the lifespan of mice by reprogramming some of their genes, and believe the same can be done someday in humans.
- United States demographics are changing as more white people die than are born in 17 states.
- A new study has found that fish oil supplements may help older women to prevent falls related to muscle problems.
- New research has found that a compound originally isolated in semen is able to increase the lifespan of mice, and could be key to doing the same in humans.
- New research has identified a behavior of telomeres that may lead to new cancer treatments.
- Brain scans of "super agers" may reveal how some elderly people never lose memory function.
- A doctor reveals secrets to a healthy long life based on decades of research.
- Tight family bonds are the key to living a longer life in the end.