Half of 65+ adults lack dental insurance; poll finds strong support for Medicare coverage
Oral care coverage acts as a strong draw for enrolling in Medicare Advantage plansCredit: University of Michigan Nearly all older ...
Tag: Gerontology
Published consensus statement offers UTI treatment recommendations
TTUHSC assistant professor helps AMDA committee efforts to protect antibioticsCredit: TTUHSC They are among the most common ailments for those ...
AFAR Webinar: COVID-19: Can the Science of Aging Move Us Forward?
Leading Experts to Discuss How Geroscience Insights and Promising Therapeutics Could Lessen the Severity of Pandemics, Age-Related DiseasesCredit: AFAR March ...
Viewpoint: Could disease pathogens be the dark matter behind Alzheimer’s disease?
Credit: Graphic by Shireen Dooling for the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University For researchers investigating Alzheimer's Disease (AD), a ...
Webinars with patients-survey: 73% with chronic illnesses feel more COVID-19 risk
Ongoing series of surveys of 1,300 patients is tracking changing concerns over two weeks as pandemic continuesCredit: Health Perspectives Group ...
Vitamin D boosts chances of walking after hip fracture
Scientists studied the impact of vitamin D on post-surgery mobilityCredit: Sue Shapses/Rutgers University-New Brunswick Senior citizens who are not vitamin ...
Beijing Tide Pharmaceutical and Insilico Medicine enter into an agreement for cancer therapy
noneCredit: Insilico BEIJING and HONG KONG, CHINA, March 17, 2020 (9 AM Beijing time) - Beijing Tide Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. ...
Resolving inflammation: Could it prevent memory loss in Down syndrome and Alzheimer’s?
Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina and elsewhere discover the therapeutic potential for a class of lipids to ...
On World Delirium Day, AGS launches AGS CoCare: HELP™ to turn tide for serious condition
Credit: (C) 2020, American Geriatrics Society With the launch of https://HELP.AGSCoCare.org, the online home for AGS CoCare: HELP™--a seminal program ...
Newly confirmed biochemical mechanism in cells is key component of the anti-ageing program
Credit: Jan Zwilling Ageing is an inevitable part of life, yet some species are ageing very differently than others, even ...
FierceMedTech names Insilico Medicine as one of its ‘Fierce 15’ companies of 2019
Credit: Insilico 9th of March, 2020, 9:00 AM ET --Insilico Medicine today announced that it has been named by FierceMedTech ...
Study shows low carb diet may prevent, reverse age-related effects within the brain
Credit: Stony Brook University STONY BROOK, NY, March 4, 2020 - A study using neuroimaging led by Stony Brook University ...
Arnold Ventures awards $6M to study replication of Penn nursing’s transitional care model
Study will evaluate the effectiveness of TCM in reducing re-hospitalizations and promote widespread use of the program in a number ...
Under reporting of data on the outcomes among older adults in cancer clinical trials
Study provides templates for improving assessment of senior cancer patientsCredit: Colleen Kelley/University of Cincinnati Creative Services While older adults, defined ...
AI preclinical research program targeting brain cancers starts at Insilico Medicine
New AI-powered discovery generative biology and generative chemistry effort targeting brain tumors with the focus on GBM launches at Insilico ...
MIT Technology Review selects AI molecular design as a breakthrough and highlights Insilico
Credit: Insilico 26th of February, 2020, 7:00 AM ET - Insilico Medicine today announced that MIT Technology Review selected AI-discovered ...
Sugary drinks a sour choice for adults trying to maintain normal cholesterol levels
Credit: Tufts University BOSTON (February 26, 2020, 5:00 a.m., EST)--Middle-aged and older adults who drank sugary beverages daily were at ...
AGS: Trump Administration’s 2021 budget ‘deeply troubling’ for older americans
Credit: (C) 2019, American Geriatrics Society Experts at the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) raised grave concerns with President Trump's 2021 ...
Readmission risk increases for elderly patients with geriatric-specific characteristics
Journal of the American College of Surgeons study results suggest the need to intervene early to prevent costly unplanned readmissions, ...
Memory games: Eating well to remember
UTS researchers have uncovered a strong link between the consumption of certain food groups and memory loss and comorbid heart ...