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Memory Problems In Some Older Adults May Be Related To Anticholinergic Use Research from the Regenstrief Institute, the Indiana University Center for Aging Research and Wishard-Eskenazi Health on medications commonly taken by older adults has found that drugs with strong anticholinergic effects cause cognitive impairment when ta
Medical News Today | May 10, 2013 07:00 AM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

Adding Omega-3 Fatty Acids And Lutein/Zeaxanthin To Formulation Does Not Further Reduce Risk Of Progression To Advanced AMD In a large, multicenter, randomized clinical trial that included persons at high risk for progression to advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD), adding the carotenoids lutein and zeaxanthin, the omega-3 fatty acids DHA and EPA, or both to a formu
Medical News Today | May 8, 2013 09:00 AM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

Some Seniors Could Be Driven Out Of Medicare Program By Attempts To Curb Costs The rising cost of Medicare can be cut through strategies such as increasing premiums and raising the eligibility age, but those moves could drive many elderly Americans from the program, leaving them with limited access to health services, according to a
Medical News Today | May 8, 2013 08:00 AM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

Delaying The Aging Process By Boosting 'Cellular Garbage Disposal' UCLA life scientists have identified a gene previously implicated in Parkinson's disease that can delay the onset of aging and extend the healthy life span of fruit flies. The research, they say, could have important implications for aging and disease in
Medical News Today | May 8, 2013 08:00 AM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

Progerin's 'Discrimination' May Contribute To Fatal Disease That Resembles Premature Aging A mutant protein responsible for Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria syndrome (HGPS) bars large proteins from entering the nucleus, according to a study in The Journal of Cell Biology. The culprit in HGPS, a fatal disease that resembles premature aging, is a prot
Medical News Today | May 8, 2013 08:00 AM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

In Older People, Traumatic Brain Injury Poses Complex Diagnostic, Management And Treatment Challenges Each year more than 1.7 million people in the United States sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI). The incidence of TBI in older adults poses special diagnostic, management and treatment challenges, say experts in a special collection of papers on TBI in
Medical News Today | May 8, 2013 07:00 AM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

Many Adults 45 Years And Older In Africa Have Limited Functional Ability The number of adults living into older age in sub-Saharan Africa is rapidly growing yet many older men and women will have an illness or disability that limits their ability to function, according to a study by researchers from the US and Malawi published
Medical News Today | May 7, 2013 9:00 PM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

Study finds Older U.S.-Born Mexican-Americans Have More Physical Limitations Than Mexican American Immigrants New research indicates that Mexican-Americans born in the United States who are aged 55 and over are significantly more likely than Mexican-American immigrants to report that they have substantial limitations in one or more basic physical activity such as
Medical News Today | May 7, 2013 07:00 AM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

Five brands of dog food recalled Health Canada has recalled five brands of dry dog food because of fears it may be contaminated with salmonella.
Canoe.ca | May 6, 2013 12:00 AM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

Cure For Gray Hair And Vitiligo Found A modified pseudocatalase, a new compound that reverses oxidative stress may provide a cure for loss of skin or hair color, i.e. gray hair or vitiligo, researchers from the United Kingdom and Germany reported in The FASEB Journal. The need to use hair dye
Medical News Today | May 5, 2013 07:00 AM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

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