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Low Impact Cardio Exercises for Seniors
Working out and exercising is important at any age, but it's especially important as we get older. Maintaining heart health, endurance, balance and coordination, as well as...
20 hours ago - Active Beat - 2 articles
Senior Exercises That Help With Flabby Arms
It's common for people to carry more weight in different parts of the body from the tummy to thighs, and arms. While you can't spot-treat fat loss, you can improve muscle tone...
7 days ago - Active Beat
UMass-Boston Gerontology Institute Aims to Improve Economic Security of Older Adults with AARP Foundation Grant
Armed with a $288,000 grant from the AARP Foundation, the UMass-Boston Gerontology Institute will build on the institute's age-friendly work, particularly the Age Friendly...
19 days ago - Massachusetts Healthy Aging Collaborative
Advances in therapeutics simplify postop inflammation management
Consistent and comprehensive communication between optometrists and ophthalmologists will always be the key to successful comanagement of cataract patients. While open...
2 monthes ago - Healio
Senior Living: This boomer has put her travelling days behind her
OK, here goes: I hate travelling. It is outright boomer heresy to say so, for if the world has been our oyster, as we are interminably reminded, why on Earth would anyone so...
3 monthes ago - National Post
Post-9/11 War Deployments Increased Crime among Veterans - by Resul Cesur, Joseph J. Sabia, Erdal Tekin
Several high-profile news stories have linked post-September 11 combat service to violent crime among veterans. Nevertheless, there is scant causal evidence for this claim. We...
3 monthes ago - National Bureau of Economic Research
Breakthrough femtosecond technology moves cataract surgery toward ‘photoemulsification'
A new ultrafast femtosecond laser with a robotic arm and a novel disruptive technology for nucleus fragmentation is moving cataract surgery to the stage of all-laser...
5 monthes ago - Healio - 2 articles
Talazoparib active, safe among subset of men with metastatic prostate cancer
Talazoparib monotherapy induced promising antitumor activity in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who previously received docetaxel, according to the...
7 monthes ago - Healio
Single adjuvant chemotherapy course safe, effective for high-risk testicular cancer
A single course of adjuvant bleomycin, etoposide and cisplatin chemotherapy appeared safe and effective among a cohort of men with high-risk primary testicular cancer...
7 monthes ago - Healio
Top stories in endocrinology: Phthalates impact testosterone levels, bigger arm muscles reduce osteoporosis risk
A cross-sectional analysis of more than 1,400 men suggested that phthalate metabolites from plastics and personal care products influenced testosterone levels - a top story in...
7 monthes ago - Healio
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Freezing Prostate Cancer Cells is An Effective Treatment
Freezing prostate cancer cells using MRI guided hemi-gland cryoablation is successful in controlling prostate cancer in clinically significant and advanced cases.
Prostate cancer patients could be spared radiotherapy after surgery
The treatment is used to eradicate cancer cells and to try to ensure tumours do not return. But research in The Lancet found there was no benefit.
New Hormone Therapies are Beneficial for Hot Flashes
Hormone therapy is one of the best proven method for the management of menopause symptoms, specially hot flashes. Research continues to identify the trajectories to estrogen...
The Lancet: Radiotherapy After Prostate Cancer Surgery can be Avoided for Men
Researchers from all over the world have access to HYSETS, a database of hydrometric data created at Ecole de technologie superieure , to note the results of climate change on...
Feeding a Person With Advanced Alzheimer's Disease: An Update
We update our 2011 discussion of feeding the person with late-stage or advanced Alzheimer's disease. We present a case of a 92-year-old woman diagnosed with AD, from our family...
Spinal Cord Stimulation Alleviates Motor Symptoms in Parkinson's Disease...
Spinal cord stimulation alleviates pain and reduces motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease, both as a singular therapy and as a "salvage therapy", according to researchers in...
Menopause Symptoms Can Lead to Heart Disease
Combined symptoms of menopause could lead to an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases in women.
Cognition Declines After the Menopause Transition
Women complain about forgetting things during the transition from premenopause to perimenopause to postmenopause. Such declines in memory after menopause appear independent of...
The Surprising Ways Body Weight Affects Brain Health
The brain is the very essence of who we are, so we want it to stay healthy. But just as other organs change with age, cognitive challenges can arise with aging. Some of these...
Is Tau Blood Testing a Game Changer for Diagnosing Alzheimer's?
Drs Adam Boxer, Samuel Gandy, and Rudolph Tanzi discuss the potential impact of a breakthrough study of plasma phospho-tau217.