- 35 year study finds exercise reduces risk of dementia
A study that monitored the health habits of 2,235 men over a 35-year period has confirmed exercise significantly reduces the risk of dementia. Published today, the study is the longest of its kind to probe the influence of environmental factors in chronic disease.
- Promising Alzheimer's drug trialled in large EU study
An extensive European study is currently investigating whether a drug used to treat high blood pressure may also help patients with Alzheimer’s disease.
- Aging out of bounds: New demographic data show how diversely different species age and biologists cannot explain why
Despite aging being one the hottest topic in the media recently, scientists have no coherent explanation for it. New demographic data on humans, animals and plants for the first time unveil such an extraordinary diversity of aging processes that no existing evolutionary theory can account for. Both life spans and mortalities vary from species to species. The fact that the probability of dying rises with age applies to humans, but is not principally true. This is shown by a catalog of 46 species with their respective mortality and fertility rates.
- Potential biological factor contributing to racial disparities in prostate cancer
Researchers have uncovered a potential biological factor that may contribute to disparities in prostate cancer incidence and mortality between African-American and non-Hispanic white men in the United States, according to researchers.
- Surprising diversity in aging revealed in nature
In our youth we are strong and healthy and then we weaken and die — that’s probably how most would describe what aging is all about. But, in nature, the phenomenon of aging shows an unexpected diversity of patterns and is altogether rather strange, conclude researchers.
- Age shouldn't limit access to transplants for those with MDS, study suggests
Patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) who were as old as 74 fared as well with stem cell transplantation as did patients in the 60-to-65 age range, according to a study.
