UTHealth leads effort to enhance Texas’ financial exploitation investigations of seniors
Credit: UTHealth An elder abuse team at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) is partnering with ...
Tag: Gerontology
Overcoming the blood-brain-barrier: Delivering therapeutics to the brain
Credit: Professor Moein Moghimi, Newcastle University, UK For the first time, scientists have identified a simple way that can effectively ...
Scientists at the MDI biological laboratory are decoding the genetic mechanisms of aging
Discoveries could one day lead to new drugs to prolong healthy human lifespanCredit: MDI Biological Laboratory BAR HARBOR, MAINE -- ...
With AGS Cocare: Help, AGA expands reach of seminal delirium prevention program
Credit: (C) 2019, American Geriatrics Society A seminal program for preventing delirium (the medical term for abrupt, rapid-onset confusion or ...
MDI Biological Laboratory scientist receives federal grant to study aging
Award to Aric Rogers, Ph.D., could lead to therapies to extend healthy lifespanCredit: MDI Biological Laboratory BAR HARBOR, MAINE -- ...
Researchers to study medical cannabis and chronic pain
The $3.5M NIH project will see if cannabis substitutes for traditional pain medsCredit: UGA A team of researchers at the ...
Tau-mediated RNA splicing errors linked to Alzheimer’s disease
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine A collaborative study published today in the journal Cell Reports provides evidence for a new ...
$2.8 million grant will fund preclinical study of new dementia treatment
Credit: UK Photo | Mark Cornelison LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 7, 2019) -- The Sanders-Brown Center on Aging has received a ...
Will new CDC measures work to control nursing home infections?
Researchers receive federal grant to determine whether new government recommendations can prevent antibiotic-resistant infections in nursing homesCredit: UMSOM The Centers ...
Inadequate control of thyroid hormones sensitizes to hepatocarcinogenesis and unhealthy aging
The cover features Figure 7 'Schematic representation of the effects of the modulation of THs levels in healthspan and lifespan ...
Chair yoga more effective than music therapy in older adults with advanced dementia
Pilot study first to show adults with advanced dementia can participate in non-pharmacological interventionsCredit: Florida Atlantic University As dementia progresses, ...
Geriatrics experts on gender equity in health care: ‘When women rise, we all rise’
Credit: (C) 2019, American Geriatrics Society Putting power and potential behind gender equity in health care isn't just common sense. ...
Discovered: Possible therapeutic target for slow healing of aged muscles
New work could reveal a potential pathway for therapeutic targeting to combat muscle degeneration in the elderlyCredit: Image is provided ...
Common nutrient supplementation may hold the answers to combatting Al
Credit: Arizona State University In a new study, Biodesign researchers reveal that a lifelong dietary regimen of choline holds the ...
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