_ Kidney HealthSupplements & OTCs May Hurt Your Kidneys By Sondra Forsyth articleHow well are your kidneys working?Unless you’ve had problems in the past, you probably take for granted that your kidneys are working as they should. But more than one in 10 adults in the United States has kidney disease, and most people who have it don’t know it.
_ Stress-Free LivingHealth Issues Stress Americans the Most By Sondra Forsyth articleReports of great a deal of stress are more than twice as common among people in poor health, according to an NPR/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) poll released ton July 8th 2014. The survey examined the role of stress in Americans' lives and found that about half of the public (49%) reported that they had a major stressful event or experience in the past year. Nearly half (43%) reported that the most stressful experiences related to health.
_ Pain ManagementA New Means to Erase Pain By Sondra Forsyth articleA study published in the July 2104 issue of Nature Neuroscience by Yves De Koninck and Robert Bonin, two researchers at Université Laval in Quebec, reveals that it is possible to relieve pain hypersensitivity using a counterintuitive method that involves rekindling pain so that it can subsequently be erased. This discovery could lead to novel means to alleviate chronic pain.
_ Senior HealthOlder Adults Can Safely Donate Kidneys By Sondra Forsyth articlePrevious studies linking older age with kidney and heart disease have raised concerns about the safety of living kidney donation among older adults. However, in the first study to look closely at this issue, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania report that older kidney donors (55 years and above) enjoy similar life expectancy and cardiovascular health as very healthy older people who did not donate their kidneys.
_ Protect Yourself from Wildfire Smoke By Sondra Forsyth articleDry conditions in parts of the United States increase the potential for wildfires in or near wilderness areas. Stay alert for wildfire warnings and take action to protect yourself and your family from wildfire smoke. When wildfires burn in your area, they produce smoke that may reach your community. Smoke from wildfires is a mixture of gases and fine particles from burning trees and other plant materials. Smoke can hurt your eyes, irritate your respiratory system, and worsen chronic heart and lung diseases.Who is at greatest risk from wildfire smoke?
_ Aging Well Beauty & Style Skin Skin cancer Skin Health SunburnWatch: 7 Sunscreen Facts That Will Save Your Skin By Sondra Forsyth articleHere's another addition to our ThirdAge Video Collection. Press play to start learning!
Coming Next Week! July 14th to July 18th 2014 By Sondra Forsyth articleHere’s a sneak preview of the articles and blogs we’ll be posting during the coming week on ThirdAge, the biggest and best site for “boomer and beyond” women since 1997. As always, we’ll bring you the latest information from top experts about maintaining a healthy body, mind, and spirit as you navigate both the challenges and the joys of being a ThirdAger.In addition, be sure to come back every morning to check out the ThirdAge Exclusives, We write them after culling the most important new academic and government studies from around the world that are making news that day.
_ Healthy Diet & NutritionWatch: Foods That Help Healing Post Surgery By Sondra Forsyth articleHere's another addition to our ThirdAge Video Collection. Press play to start learning!
_ Heart HealthCheaper & Better Drug for Heart Attack Procedure By Sondra Forsyth articleA study done in the UK and published in The Lancet on July 4th 2014 compares outcomes for two drugs used to prevent blood clot formation during emergency heart attack treatment. The study suggests that use of one of the drugs, heparin, could result in improved outcomes such as a reduced rate of repeat heart attacks, compared to the other drug tested, bivalirudin, which is in widespread use in high-income countries and is around 400 times more expensive than heparin.
_ Brain Health Sleep HealthA Good Night’s Sleep Boosts Brain Power as We Age By Sondra Forsyth articleA University of Oregon-led study published in the June 2014 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine found that middle-aged or older people who get six to nine hours of sleep a night think better than those sleeping fewer or more hours.The study reaffirms numerous small-scale studies in the United States, Western Europe and Japan, but it does so using data compiled across six middle-income nations and involving more than 30,000 subjects for a long-term project that began in 2007.
_ Watch: Why the Lazy Days of Summer Are Good for Your Health By Sondra Forsyth articleHere's another addition to our ThirdAge Video Collection. Press play to start learning!
_ ExerciseSitting Pretty: How to Stay Fit Even If You Have a Desk Job By Sondra Forsyth article By Sondra Forsyth
_ MenopauseToolkit to Diagnose Menopause By Sondra Forsyth articleThe “Practitioner Toolkit for Managing the Menopause”, designed to guide physicians in the management of menopausal conditions for women from the age of 40 has been designed by researchers at Monash University in Australia. The kit, which includes a diagnostic tool as well as a compendium of approved hormone therapies, was published on July 6th 2014 in the journal Climacteric.
_ Heart HealthPainless AFib Treatment By Sondra Forsyth articleA technique called cardiac optogenetics achieves defibrillation without the pain of electric shocks, according to research presented on July 4th at Frontiers in CardioVascular Biology (FCVB) 2014 in Barcelona, Spain. The meeting is organized by the Council on Basic Cardiovascular Science of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) in collaboration with 13 European cardiovascular science societies.
_ Glitch in “Garbage Removal” Ups Dementia Risk By Sondra Forsyth articleAn international team of researchers identified a pathogenic mechanism that is common to several neurodegenerative diseases. The findings suggest that it may be possible to slow the progression of dementia even after the onset of symptoms.
Healthy Diet & Nutrition Senior HealthNutrition Screenings for Older Adults By Sondra Forsyth articleAs older adults typically have one or more chronic health conditions that can affect dietary intake, malnutrition has been identified as a serious for this population. For this reason, nutrition screenings should be a mandatory part of the comprehensive geriatric analysis (CGA), according to a review article published on July 3rd 2014 in the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition's (A.S.P.E.N.) Nutrition in Clinical Practice journal.
Heart HealthUnnecessary Blood Tests Waste Money By Sondra Forsyth articleResearchers at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center used two relatively simple tactics to significantly reduce the number of unnecessary blood tests to assess symptoms of heart attack and chest pain and to achieve a large decrease in patient charges.
_ Pancreatic CancerThunder God Vine Helps Kill Pancreatic Ca Cells By Sondra Forsyth articleA diagnosis of pancreatic cancer—the fourth most common cause of cancer death in the U.S.—can be devastating. Due in part to aggressive cell replication and tumor growth, pancreatic cancer progresses quickly and has a low five-year survival rate of less than 5 percent.