WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Sept. 3, 2019 – Could following a certain type of diet affect the gut microbiome – the good and bad bacteria that live in the gastrointestinal tract – in ways that decrease the risk of Alzheimer’s disease?…
Tag: GERONTOLOGY
Finding an effective way to reduce pressure ulcers
Expensive high-tech air mattresses are only marginally better at preventing pressure sores and ulcers than a specialist foam mattress, according to the results of a major study. Known as an alternating-pressure mattress, the high-tech devices contain air pockets that inflate…
Poor diet causes blindness in a young ‘fussy eater’
Embargoed News from Annals of Internal Medicine
Enzyme known for promoting cancer found to also protect healthy cells
UMD researchers discovered that telomerase, which ‘immortalizes’ cancer cells, also prevents tumors
Behavioral therapy, physical strengthening may prevent disability in minority elders
BOSTON – A randomized controlled trial of a new disability prevention intervention, called Positive Minds-Strong Bodies (PMSB), indicates that improving coping skills and physical strengthening can significantly improve functioning and mood in racial and ethnic minority and immigrant older adults.…
Memory loss, dementia an understudied yet widespread phenomenon among Chinese Americans
Rutgers releases first of their kind studies revealing the impact of immigration, gender, psychologi
Elderly have poor prognosis after recovery in long-term acute care hospitals
Most patients die within 5 years and spend two-thirds of remaining life as an inpatient, UCSF report
New evidence that optimists live longer
After decades of research, a new study links optimism and prolonged life
Grant awarded to MDI Biological Laboratory scientist James A. Coffman, Ph.D.
Will support research on genes governing the health effects of chronic stress
Think declining mental sharpness ‘just comes with age’? Think again, say experts
Declining mental sharpness “just comes with age,” right? Not so fast, say geriatrics researchers and clinicians gathered at a prestigious 2018 conference hosted by the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) with support from the National Institute on Aging (NIA). In a…
A novel technology for genome-editing a broad range of mutations in live organisms
Salk scientists develop a new gene-editing tool that could help treat many disorders caused by gene
Lower levels of dietary vitamins and antioxidants are linked to frailty in older adults
Researchers from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) at Trinity College Dublin have shown in the largest study to date that lower levels of specific dietary vitamins and antioxidants are associated with frailty. Frailty is a common chronic syndrome…
Regenstrief researcher, national leaders support keeping feeding tube orders on POLST form
Susan Hickman, PhD, director of the Indiana University Center for Aging Research at Regenstrief Institute, and her colleagues nationwide are stressing the importance of including orders about artificial nutrition preferences on POLST (Provider’s Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment) forms. POLST…
Physical and mental exercise lower chances for developing delirium after surgery
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society research summary
New drug targets early instigator of Alzheimer’s disease
Over a hundred years after they were first identified, two ominous signposts of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) remain central topics of research–both formed by sticky accumulations of protein in the brain. Amyloid beta solidifies into senile plaques, which congregate in the…
Pekka Katajisto to present at the 6th Aging Research, Drug Discovery, and AI Forum in Basel
Wednesday, August 14, 2019 – Today Insilico Medicine , a biotechnology company developing the end-to-end drug discovery pipeline utilizing next generation artificial intelligence, and the Scheibye-Knudsen Lab , University of Copenhagen , announce the presentation of Pekka Katajisto, Ph.D., Associate…