COVID-19: Exercise may protect against deadly complication
May prevent or reduce severity of acute respiratory distress syndromeCredit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications Regular exercise may reduce the ...
Tag: Mortality/Longevity
‘Frailty’ from age 40 — what to look out for
Diet, exercise, mental wellbeing, sleep all factorsCredit: Flinders University With all eyes on avoiding major illness this year, health researchers ...
Leaving its mark: How frailty impacts the blood
Credit: OIST Globally, human society is aging. A side-effect of this is that age-related disorders, such as frailty, are becoming ...
UK local authorities not ready for the number of deaths from Covid-19
The situation could lead to a bottleneck in burials and cremations, mortuaries filled beyond capacity and the possibility of mass ...
It’s in our genome: Uncovering clues to longevity from human genetics
Researchers from Osaka University use genetic and clinical information of 700,000 individuals worldwide to show that high blood pressure and ...
Sugar leads to early death, but not due to obesity
Credit: Suzy Hazelwood via Pexels.com Sugar-rich diets have a negative impact on health independent of obesity reports a new study ...
Understanding how COVID-19 affects children vital to slowing pandemic, doctors say
Credit: Sanjay Suchak | UVA Communications Though COVID-19 so far appears to be largely sparing children, researchers are cautioning that ...
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 ...
Technologies of the Human Corpse by John Troyer
New book from the MIT Press explores the relationship of the dead body with technology through historyCredit: MIT Press By ...
Discovered: Why obesity causes high blood pressure — and potential ways to fix
Credit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have discovered why obesity causes ...
FAIR Health launches shared decision-making tools for palliative care
Groundbreaking decision tools pair clinical and cost information for patients with serious and chronic illnessCredit: fairhealthconsumer.com NEW YORK, NY--March 10, ...
Cancer cells spread using a copper-binding protein
Credit: Illustration: Boid Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have shown that the Atox1 protein, found in breast cancer ...
Levels of sBTLA proteins as potential marker of overall survival of liver cancer patients
Credit: Osaka City University In the 2020 February 25 issue of Scientific Reports, a research group from the Department of ...
Mortality decreased with further treatment for opioid use disorder after detox
Credit: Boston Medical Center Boston - A new study shows that people with opioid use disorder who enter inpatient medically ...
Insulin signaling suppressed by decoys
C. elegans study from the lab of Matthew Gill, PhD, presents new direction for research on type 2 diabetes, insulin ...
Simple blood test could help reduce heart disease deaths
Credit: Newcastle University, UK Scientists at Newcastle University have revealed how a simple blood test could be used to help ...
Hispanics/Latinos underrepresented in Alzheimer’s disease research
UH researcher to increase health literacy among largest US minorityCredit: University of Houston A University of Houston researcher is working ...
Adolescent male chimps still need their mamas
A chimpanzee mom's continued presence through her son's tween and teen years boosts his odds of survival later in lifeCredit: ...
Researchers challenge new guidelines on aspirin in primary prevention
Credit: Florida Atlantic University The most recent guidelines for primary prevention recommend aspirin use for individuals ages 40 to 70 ...
CDI laboratory explores pathway to open up blood cancer treatments
The paper in Nature Communications could mean better treatment for leukemia, among other cancersCredit: Hackensack Meridian Health February 12, 2020, ...