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In their deadly journey through the body, cancer cells travel much more efficiently than had been previously thought, a new study shows.
Researchers, whose findings were reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, developed a new mathematical formula that they say better reflects the behavior of cells as they travel through 3-D environments.
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Along with all their other functions, smart phones may soon be able to diagnose diseases in real time.
Researchers from the University of Houston are developing a diagnostic system that could be read using only a smart phone and a $20 lens attachment.
This new device, like essentially all diagnostic tools, relies on spotting specific chemical interactions between something that causes a disease – a virus or bacteria, for example – and a molecule that bonds with that one thing only, like a disease-fighting antibody.
Researchers have determined that it may now be possible to identify Parkinson's patients who will go on to develop dementia.
A study conducted by researchers from the Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal used magnetic resonance imaging in reaching its conclusion. The findings were published in the journal Brain.
Parkinson’s is usually associated with problems such as trembling, but patients also have a six times greater risk of developing dementia than do those who don’t have Parkinson’s.
By Neil Short, Certified Strength and Conditioning Coach
Osteoporosis is called the “silent disease” and for good reason. According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF), more than 50% of women over the age of 50 have it, and few will know until they fall and break a bone.
And it doesn’t stop there. The NOF estimates that a full 20% of seniors who break their hip will die within one year from complications due to surgery or recovery, and most end up in nursing homes well before their time.
There’s an Alzheimer’s blood test now – a procedure that can detect whether a healthy person will develop mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer’s within three years.
The test has a 90 percent accuracy rate.
Described in the April issue of Nature Medicine, the test could lead to the development of treatment for early-stage Alzheimer’s, when therapy would be more effective at slowing or preventing onset of symptoms.
For older drivers, as little as one drink may be too much, according to new research.
Investigators from the University of Florida analyzed how drinking legally non-intoxicating levels of alcohol affect the driving skills of people aged 25 to 35 and those aged 55 to 70.
Patients with post-surgical complications are likelier to be readmitted within 30 days than are those that don’t have the complications, according to a study published in JAMA Surgery. The research also found that using a simple online tool can help health-care practitioners predict which patients are at high risk of readmission.
Researchers from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center may have discovered a way to potentially shut down the growth of prostate cancer cells.
Dr. Ralf Kittler, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, studies ERG, a protein that facilitates the transformation of normal prostate cells into cancer cells. He and fellow investigators found that a molecule called WP1130 can ultimately lead to the destruction of ERG.
“We now have a target that we could potentially exploit to develop a drug for treatment,” Kittler said in a statement.
Researchers from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center may have discovered a way to potentially shut down the growth of prostate cancer cells.
Dr. Ralf Kittler, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, studies ERG, a protein that facilitates the transformation of normal prostate cells into cancer cells. He and fellow investigators found that a molecule called WP1130 can ultimately lead to the destruction of ERG.
“We now have a target that we could potentially exploit to develop a drug for treatment,” Kittler said in a statement.
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Here's another addition to our Third Age Video Collection. Press play to start learning!
If you think you’re good at reading peoples’ faces, you might want to think again.
Lisa Feldman Barrett, Northeastern University Distinguished Professor Psychology, has concluded that the widespread belief in universal emotions – i.e. you can read someone from a Third World country just the same as you would someone from the is simply wrong.
“Emotions are not universally perceived, “ Barrett says. Everything that’s predicated on that is a mistake.”
Researchers have made a discovery that may make age-related memory loss a thing of the past.
The drug can’t be used by humans yet, but scientists from the University of Florida are developing compounds that could eventually help adults who have memory trouble but are not suffering from Alzheimer’s or dementia.
From NIH SeniorHealth.gov.
Hearing loss, a common yet complex problem, involves both the ear’s ability to detect sounds and the brain’s ability to interpret those sounds, including speech.
Several factors have to be taken into account to determine how much of an effect hearling loss will have on quality of life. They include:
*the degree of the hearing loss
*the pattern of hearing loss across different frequencies (pitches)
*whether one or both ears is affected
Colon cancer, the second-leading cause of cancer death in the United States, is often preventable and highly curable.
March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and it’s important to find out all about the illness that overwhelmingly affects people 50 and older. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), more than 90 percent of people with the illness fall into that age category.
A new finding by researchers could help improve vision for adults who are lost without their reading glasses.
Middle-aged people who suddenly need reading glasses, patients with traumatic brain injuries, and people with visual disorders such as "lazy eye" likely have one thing in common — "visual crowding." That’s the inability to recognize individual items surrounded by multiple objects.
For some people, anger could literally be a killer.
A new study has found that there’s a nearly fivefold increase in heart attack risk in the two hours following an outburst.
“There has been a lot of research on anger; we already know it can be unhealthy, but we wanted to quantify the risk, not just for heart attack, but for other potentially lethal cardiovascular events as well,” said lead author Elizabeth Mostofsky, MPH, ScD, a post-doctoral fellow in the cardiovascular epidemiological unit at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
