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A North American digital health company is looking to extend the commercial reach for its pioneering diagnostic platform, developed to identify patients suffering from a potentially fatal sleep disorder common among older adults. Chicago-headquartered Sibel Health received US Food and Drug Administration clearance in July 2022 for its ANNE Sleep tool created to help doctors [...]
A leading expert on ageing has said society needs to stop thinking of older people in terms of “us versus them” and reassess the often negative language used when talking about the over-65s. Trish D’Antonio, the executive director of the US National Center to Reframe Aging, said one of the most widespread terms employed when [...]
US society is currently facing a difficult trade-off between youth and experience as the baby boomer generation continues to hold disproportionate political and social sway, according to gerontocracy expert Kevin Munger. The assistant professor of political science and social data analytics at Penn State University in the United States is featured in the latest Agetech [...]
King Arthur’s knights famously set out on a quest to find the Holy Grail, spurred on by the cup of Christ’s fabled healing powers and promise of eternal youth. Fast forward 1,500 years, and we’re still pursuing the anti-ageing pot of gold. A staggering $64bn is expected to be spent this year globally on products [...]
Professor Sir Muir Gray has said there needs to be a radical shift in the way healthcare is perceived if people are to live longer and better. The public health and ageing expert has said governments and medical institutions like the NHS, need to focus more on disease prevention rather than just being seen as [...]
Howard Blackburn knows exactly why the company to which he has devoted more than 30 years of his working life, is in his opinion a game changer for those looking to keep fit in the second half of their lives. "Because we are the only product, the only manufacturer, who has focused all of its [...]
Human papillomavirus (HPV) related throat and mouth cancers could soon be among the most common forms of the disease in adults between the ages of 45 and 65. Experts in the United States are becoming increasingly concerned about the rapidly rising rates of middle throat cancer, known medically as oropharyngeal cancer. If the trend continues [...]
To rephrase a well-known saying, you wait decades for an Alzheimer's breakthrough to come along, and then two potential new drugs that could slow the progression of the disease are unveiled within months of each other. This week American pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly reported its donanemab drug has shown positive results in a late-stage trial, [...]
An iPad app developed in the United States could help doctors screen for a wide range of neurological diseases, such as Parkinson's and dementia, in five minutes or less. Developed at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, the NIH (National Institutes of Health) Toolbox V3 iPad app allows time-strapped clinicians to quickly but thoroughly assess patients, from [...]
Conventional wisdom has it that stress turns your hair grey. And there are those who maintain that too much mental and emotional pressure is ageing too. The jury is still out on whether stress can indeed lead to loss of hair colour. But there is mounting evidence that the diverse pressures and tensions life throws [...]
