LECOM’s Dr. James Lin named AGS Geriatrics Clinician of the Year
Credit: (C) 2020 The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) today named James Lin, DO, MS, MHSA, president of the Lake Erie ...
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Geriatrics experts award high honor to visionary organization: West health
Credit: (C) 2020, American Geriatrics Society For only the second time in its near 80-year history, the American Geriatrics Society ...
AGS honors Dr. John B. Murphy for pioneering work to build a better health workforce
Credit: (C) 2020 The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) today announced that John B. Murphy, MD, a clinician, educator, and administrator ...
Drs. Rasheeda Hall and Kah Poh (Melissa) Loh honored With AGS’s Arti Hurria Memorial Award
Credit: (C) 2020, American Geriatrics Society The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) and the AGS Health in Aging Foundation today conferred ...
New issue of JAGS highlights award-winning research
Credit: (C) 2020, American Geriatrics Society Advancing care for older people across health specialties, the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) and ...
AGS honors expert and emerging geriatrics leaders of 2020
Credit: (C) 2020, American Geriatrics Society The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) annually honors researchers, clinicians, educators, and emerging health professionals ...
Perspiration problems? No sweat!
Researchers generate immortalized human eccrine sweat gland myoepithelial cellsCredit: Osaka University Solving sweat-related concerns that occur in daily life, such ...
Molecule reduces multiple pathologies associated with Alzheimer’s disease
Credit: Photo courtesy College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- When tested in ...
A new biomarker for the aging brain
Credit: RIKEN Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan have identified changes in the aging ...
Position statement addresses difficult issue: allocating scare resources in COVID-19 era
Credit: (C) 2020, American Geriatrics Society The COVID-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented pressure on societies worldwide, given the pandemic's rapid, ...
UTA optimizing delivery of possible COVID-19 medication for underserved communities
A supply chain for COVID-19 medicationCredit: UT Arlington Working with artificial intelligence, a University of Texas at Arlington researcher is ...
Grandfamilies: New study uncovers common themes and challenges in kinship care
George Mason University study provides framework to help social workers and other practitioners develop best practices for working with growing ...
Cognition and gait speed often decline together, study shows
Mexican Americans at higher riskCredit: UT Health San Antonio Do thinking and walking go hand in hand in determining the ...
COVID-19 study: Impact of social distancing on older adults
Credit: University of Stirling The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on social contact, loneliness, wellbeing and physical activity in older ...
Scientists invented an aging vaccine
Professor Viktor Seledtsov, a senior researcher at the IKBFU Center of Medical Biotechnologies and Alexei von Delwig, a researcher at ...
Characterizing two sisters, examples of exceptional longevity
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, May 1, 2020--A new study provides a detailed characterization of two ...
Real-time observation of enzymatic processes on DNA
Credit: Modified from Krüger et al., DNA strand breaks can lead to cell death or to mutations and thus contribute ...
Frost & Sullivan recognizes Insilico as innovation leader in drug discovery
Credit: Insilico April 30, 2020 - Today Insilico Medicine has announced that Frost & Sullivan named it as a top ...
KU Leuven researchers unravel protein mystery of three brain diseases
Credit: Microscopy by Anke Van der Perren The accumulation of one particular protein in the brain is at the basis ...
Support teams key to reducing hospitalizations from nursing homes
Credit: MU Sinclair School of Nursing COLUMBIA, Mo. - Nursing home residents are often cared for by a variety of ...