Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Conventional medical wisdom says that as a person gets older, their mature brain shrinks – but some new research might just change the way we think about the aging brain.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Every 18 seconds, a senior is in the emergency room as the result of a fall according to numbers from the Centers for Disease Control.
If you want to spend your golden years in the best shape possible, being overweight at midlife isn’t the way to go about it as it may cut the average age expectancy.
Science spends a lot of time investigating what causes mental decline as we age, and not much on what things might prevent it. Now the health benefits o exercise appear to include keeping your mind sharp as well as your body fit.
Work appearing in the June 9, 2009 issue of Neurology is some of the [...]
More and more of us are using sunscreens to protect skin from sunburn, signs of early aging and some kinds of skin cancer. But what do we know about sunscreen effectiveness?
When you’re shopping for that sun protection product this summer, look beyond the package and the claims on the label… make sure you know exactly [...]
A study that might have you paying more attention to the quality of the air you breathe appears in the March 12, 2009 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.
The work showed that long-term exposure to ground level ozone significantly increases the risk of death from breathing problems. In fact, the risk is more [...]
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
We all know that exercise is amazingly good for us and that regular exercise and being active helps us live longer. But does exercise for older people make a diference? For those of us who’ve avoided working out all our lives, can getting a late start do any good?
A solid study out of Sweden presents compelling [...]
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
There’s no getting around it, the population is getting older… what’s more, these numbers are only expected to increase in the years to come. In fact, by 2030, one in five U.S. residents will be over 65 years old. And since more than half of older adults report themselves as social drinkers, research that looks [...]
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Down through the ages people have wondered about getting older and what brings on the streaks of white that appear in our hair. Was it a mark of wisdom? A badge of honor? No one could say.
Some recent work may finally answer the age-old question. It seems a chain reaction of chemicals in the body cause a [...]
Thursday, January 29, 2009
New evidence published online in the January 2009 issue of the journal Psychological Science shows in a brain study that the brains of older women process negative images in a different way than do the brains of younger women.
This is a physical sign that the brain is able to learn to cope [...]
