A new study looks at what keeps older adults from getting sufficient fluids to avoid negative health outcomes.
Staying hydrated seems simple enough. Yet studies have shown that somewhere between about one-third and one-half of older adults may be dehydrated, increasing their risk of health problems.
Dehydrated people hospitalized with a stroke...
Recently a team of experts from the University of Melbourne in Australia and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, MD, has discovered an interesting autoinflammatory condition.
The researchers have named it “cleavage-resistant RIPK1-induced autoinflammatory (CRIA) syndrome.” They explain how they discovered it and what they think might be the...
The older people get, the more their lives might change. For example, their friends and relatives may reach the ends of their lives, and people’s careers may begin to wind down.
According to a new study paper appearing in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, crossing this threshold reawakens people’s need to...
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge, may have found a combination of drugs that can relieve the pain of passing a kidney stone.
Anyone who has ever passed a kidney stone knows that it can be a painful experience. Every year, over half a million people in...
There is a study out saying that fat overflow from the liver into the pancreas is the cause of type two diabetes, brought about by the body’s need to store fat that can’t fit under the skin somewhere else. According to this, alcohol and caffeine should cure someone with type...
There is anecdotal evidence that mindfulness training may be able to reduce high blood pressure and hypertension. However, clinical confirmation of these claims has been scarce until last month, when researchers published a new study in the journal PLOS One.
The authors report the results of a Mindfulness-Based Blood Pressure Reduction...
Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign fed rats a high-fat, high-sugar diet. They then gave some of the rodents caffeine extracted from mate tea and others decaffeinated mate tea.
The rats that consumed the caffeine extract gained 16% less weight and 22% less body fat than those that consumed...
Overweight women over the age of 50 could see a reduction in their risk of developing breast cancer if they lost weight, according to a new study. The study, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI) and conducted by researchers from the American Cancer Society, the Harvard...
Nilotinib, a drug that regulators have approved for the treatment of leukemia, has shown promise in a small clinical trial of people with Parkinson’s disease. The main purpose of the trial was to assess the repurposed drug’s safety and tolerability and how it behaves in the body in people with...
Aging is an inevitable part of our lives. But an increasingly aging population poses public health challenges. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the number of people in the United States aged 65 years and older will reach around 71 million in the next 10 years....
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