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Zits in high school may mean youthful looking skin in adulthood
Cells of past acne victims have longer telomeres, which may delay cellular aging
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Can You Get Smarter?
You can increase the size of your muscles by pumping iron and improve your stamina with aerobic training. Can you get smarter by exercising — or altering — your brain? This is hardly an idle question considering that cognitive decline is a nearly universal feature of aging. Starting at age 55, our hippocampus, a brain region critical to memory, shrinks 1 to 2 percent every year, to say nothing of the fact that one in nine people age 65 and older has Alzheimer’s disease.
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Genes for a longer, healthier life found
Out of a 'haystack' of 40,000 genes from three different organisms, scientists at ETH Zurich and a research consortium in Jena have found genes that are involved in physical ageing. If you influence only one of these genes, the healthy lifespan of laboratory animals is extended—and possibly that of humans, too. Driven by the quest for eternal youth, humankind has spent centuries obsessed with the question of how it is exactly that we age.
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Making Technology Easier for Older People to Use
Intimidated by digital technology? So was Marian Goldberg, 70, until she went to a Senior Planet Exploration Center in Manhattan, which teaches older adults how to become more comfortable being online. Now, she has learned to use Pinterest, send messages on Facebook and embed emoji in her emails. Ms. Goldberg, who has a part-time beaded jewelry business, said she had mastered enough tools to reframe herself as a digital entrepreneur.
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Is it dementia? Maybe — Or maybe not.
Other conditions come with similar symptoms, experts say.
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Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old immune system
Results in mice are first evidence of natural intervention triggering stem cell-dependent regeneration of organ or system.
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Pushing back retirement age to 70 would be worse for low income individuals.
It sounds like a simple fix to the nation’s immense problem of funding Social Security and Medicare for an aging country — just get everyone to work to 70, and the math works out a lot better.
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Too Old for Hard Labor, but Still on the Job
Some blue-collar workers trade the physical stress for related work that takes advantage of their knowledge and experience. By Christopher Farrell.
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An MIT Scientist Claims That This Pill Is the Fountain of Youth
Leonard Guarente is certain he’s succeeded where doctors (and quacks) before him have failed. His pill will either extend lives or tarnish his career.
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What Sixtysomething Circus Performers Can Teach Us About How the Body Ages
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Why Some Life Insurance Premiums Are Skyrocketing
Like clockwork, Sara and James Cook paid $452 a month for life insurance. That is, until a letter arrived last year telling the elderly Georgia couple the premiums on the policy they’d had for 25 years were rising sharply.
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Declaring chemical warfare against Alzheimer's.
What does the 4 billion dollar a year blockbuster Alzheimer's drug donepezil have in common with insecticides, chemical weapons and venom?
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Here's everything scientists know about how to avoid ageing
It’s rare that a long, technical paper in a biology journal turns out to be a page-turner. But it happens. A team of researchers published a thorough review of the science of why we age this week in the journal Cell. It ties together that still-young field’s confusing, sometimes contradictory findings into a single coherent whole and offers the most complete explanation I’ve seen anywhere as to why human beings get old, as well as what we can do to slow the ageing process.
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Medicines to treat side effects of other medicines? Sometimes less is more beneficial
Taking multiple medicines strongly increases the risk of unwanted side effects such as drowsiness, dizziness, confusion, falls and injuries and even hospitalisations.
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Heart disease risk rises just before menopause.
Doctors thought the onset of menopause increased women’s risk of heart disease. New research shows the trouble starts even earlier.
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My Father’s Hackberry Tree
We never really talked, but the seeds he collected for me one summer said it all. By A. Hope Jahren.
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AARP Is Funding ALEC
AARP, the non-profit seniors organization that exists to promote the financial security, pensions and healthcare of those over 50, is secretly funding the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). By Nick Surgey and Calvin Sloan.
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Mysterious dark brain cells linked to Alzheimer’s and stress
Dark and shrunken microglia cells identified in the brains of people and mice seem to smother brain connections and are associated with age and disease
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Long-Term Care Is An Immediate Problem — For The Government
Medi-Cal has become the payer of first resort for many Californians unable to afford the long-term care they need.
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Resveratrol appears to restore blood-brain barrier integrity in Alzheimer's disease
Resveratrol, given to Alzheimer's patients, appears to restore the integrity of the blood-brain barrier, reducing the ability of harmful immune molecules secreted by immune cells to infiltrate from the body into brain tissues, say researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center. The reduction in neuronal inflammation slowed the cognitive decline of patients, compared to a matching group of placebo-treated patients with the disorder.
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