Category Archives: Longevity Medicine

Health Buzz: Home HIV Test Backed By FDA Panel

FDA Panel Supports Rapid, At-Home HIV Test Home HIV tests should be sold in retail stores, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel urged Tuesday Continue reading

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What Role Do Drugs Play in Determining Longevity?

If you're a typical American, chances are about 50-50 that you take at least one prescription drug–and if you're upwards of 60, the odds are nearly 2 in 5 that you take five drugs or more. Some may be lifesaving, especially for those with potentially deadly chronic conditions like diabetes or high blood pressure. Continue reading

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Death risk for marathoners remains low during or soon after race

Public release date: 15-May-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Stephanie Desmon sdesmon1@jhmi.edu 410-955-8665 Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Even though hundreds of thousands more people finished grueling 26.2 mile marathons in the United States in 2009 compared to a decade earlier, a runner’s risk of dying during or soon after the race has remained very low about .75 per 100,000, new Johns Hopkins research suggests. Men, however, were twice as likely to die as women. “It’s very dramatic when someone dies on the course, but it’s not common,” says Julius Cuong Pham, M.D., Ph.D., an associate professor of emergency medicine and anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and leader of the study published online in The American Journal of Sports Medicine Continue reading

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A Little More Education, a Little Longer Life?

MONDAY, May 14 (HealthDay News) — It's graduation season, and new research offers yet another reason to congratulate someone who has completed at least nine years of education: They're likely to live longer. Continue reading

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The Hunt for an Anti-Aging Pill Is on

Medicine's focus has long been on treating specific diseases. We have radiation treatments to combat cancer tumors, cholesterol-lowering drugs to stave off heart attacks, and insulin to control diabetes. Continue reading

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Scientists find differences in naked mole rat's protein disposers

The naked mole rat's unusually long and healthy life span may be explained by cellular machinery that disposes of damaged proteins. Scientists found that this machinery differs in composition from that of other rodents.Source:http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=Longevity+Medicine&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&x=wrt

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New England Journal of Medicine Articles Consider Risks and Benefits of Long-Term Bisphosphonate Treatment for …

WASHINGTON, May 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ –In response to today’s Perspective pieces published in the New England Journal Of Medicine, the National Bone Health Alliance (NBHA), a public-private partnership bringing together the expertise and resources of its 42 members from the private and non-profit sectors to collectively advance bone health and prevent disease, commends the U.S. Continue reading

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Do You Have What it Takes to Live to 100?

The raw number of centenarians in America is increasing. Fast Continue reading

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Scientists find differences in naked mole rat's protein disposers

ScienceDaily (May 11, 2012) The naked mole-rat, a curiously strange, hairless rodent, lives many years longer than any other mouse or rat. Continue reading

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Déjà vu all over again

Why do studies on how far people drive to work keep getting reported as health news? Continue reading

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How to Avoid the Biggest Health Risks

Heart disease, cancer, chronic respiratory disease, stroke, and other chronic illnesses are responsible for about 70 percent of American deaths each year. Continue reading

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Delayed female sexual maturity linked to longer lifespan in mice

Public release date: 7-May-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Joyce Peterson joyce.peterson@jax.org 207-288-6058 Jackson Laboratory An intriguing clue to longevity lurks in the sexual maturation timetable of female mammals, Jackson Laboratory researchers and their collaborators report. Jackson researchers including Research Scientist Rong Yuan, Ph.D., had previously established that mouse strains with lower circulating levels of the hormone IGF1 at age six months live longer than other strains Continue reading

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Joggers Live Much Longer

Results from the Copenhagen City Heart study reveals that regular jogging considerably increases life expectancy of men by 6.2 years and women by 5.6 years. In order to gain the optimum benefits for longevity the researchers recommend jogging at a … Continue reading

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Short men live longer

There’s good news for Northern Ireland’s shorter men, which new research has found live longer than taller men, according to research. Research into longevity based on height found that of 500 men born between 1866 and 1915 from the Italian island of Sardinia backed up 12 previous similar studies, according to the Daily Mirror. The latest research by Belgian and Italian professors found that those vertically challenged men amongst us can expect to live on average two years longer than their taller peers. Continue reading

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Are You Sitting Yourself to Death?

Do you exercise every day–pounding the pavement, breaking a sweat, raising your heart rate–all in the name of good health? Well, recent studies suggest that when it comes to your risk of premature death, all that physical activity may not matter as much as you think. Continue reading

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Living at Your Peak Promises Unparalleled Access to Leading Health, Fitness and Longevity Experts

VAIL, CO–(Marketwire -05/02/12)- Health enthusiasts from around the country will gather to network with marathon legends, cycling champions, renowned medical researchers and the nation’s leading health and fitness experts at Living at Your Peak (www.livingatyourpeak.org), the Rocky Mountain region’s premier wellness experience. The inaugural summit, to be held September 13-15, 2012, in Vail, Colo., is the nation’s only gathering designed to help health-conscious individuals and influencers discover how to live longer, better and impact the wellbeing of their world. “Living at Your Peak is designed to promote life-long health and fitness through customized experiences in an intimate setting,” said Jamie Stone, Living at Your Peak event champion and a board member of the Vail Symposium, a nonprofit organization responsible for Living at Your Peak Continue reading

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Tulsa Based TheWiseAlternative.com Launches New Website for Athletes and Patients Needing Health and Wellness, Wanting …

Oklahoma-based Jack Wise, Naturopathic Endocrinologist at http://TheWiseAlternative.com has been impacting thousands of lives for years at Herbs & More Natural Health in Tulsa, OK, and is now touching thousands wanting optimal health via the Internet. Continue reading

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Health Buzz: More Babies Born to Opiate-Addicted Moms

More Babies Born to Painkiller-Addicted Moms The number of babies born addicted to opiates, the class of drugs that includes heroin, methadone, and some prescription painkillers, has nearly tripled in the past decade. In fact, a baby is born every hour with signs of opiate drug withdrawal, according to a study published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Neonatal abstinence syndrome, or becoming addicted to drugs in utero, causes withdrawal once the baby is out of the womb. Continue reading

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The new age of old age

World expert on ageing Alexandre Kalache: ‘We are going to age differently. We are starting to see role models who are active, demanding, who will want to work longer or will want more leisure or will want to take part in society and expect that people will listen to their voices Continue reading

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Your Life Span? Ask the Calculator

Life-span predictions may sound like the stuff of tarot cards and palm readers. But an increasingly sophisticated set of online tools promise to help individuals gain a sense of how long they might live — and retirees, health care providers and financial planners are paying attention. Government agencies, geriatricians, financial-services firms and other groups are now offering these free Web-based calculators Continue reading

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