Men’s blood contains greater concentrations of enzyme that helps COVID-19 infect cells
Finding may explain why men with heart failure suffer more from the coronavirus than womenCredit: European Heart Journal Evidence from ...
Tag: Gerontology
AGS honors society’s first pharmacist president with prestigious Nascher/Manning award
Credit: (C) 2020 The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) will this year honor past AGS President Todd Semla, PharmD, MS, AGSF, ...
Dr. Ellen Flaherty, prestigious Henderson lecturer, sets sight on key priority for us all
Credit: (C) 2020, American Geriatrics Society The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) today announced that Ellen Flaherty, PhD, APRN, AGSF, an ...
UCSF expert to offer ‘confessions of unfocused researcher’ on road to better care
Credit: (C) 2020, American Geriatrics Society The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) and AGS Health in Aging Foundation today announced that ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Computational techniques explore ‘the dark side of amyloid aggregation in the brain’
UMass Amherst scientists advance knowledge of neurodegenerative fibril formationCredit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - As physicians and families know too ...
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 ...
AGS COVID-19 brief offers roadmap to government action for assisted living facilities
Credit: (C) 2020, American Geriatrics Society In a policy brief published today in its namesake journal (DOI: 10.1111/jgs.16510), the American ...