Research
A more sensitive, less bulky, knitted circuit-embedded knee wearable for wireless sensing of joint movement in real-time has been developed which could highlight early mobility issues - potentially preventing or delaying functional decline. The stretchable knee wearable has been designed by a team from the Singapore University of Technology and Design, and if commercialised could [...]
Scientists have moved a step closer to genetically personalised prostate cancer screening. The most common assessment test for the cancer, which mainly affects men over the age of 50, is prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening which often erroneously indicates signs of the disease. But a joint team at UC San Francisco and Stanford University, both in [...]
An early clinical trial has shown that the Parkinson's drug ropinirole is safe to use in patients with the fatal motor neurone disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and delayed disease progression by an average of 27.9 weeks. ALS causes people to gradually lose control of their muscles and while the disease can strike at any time [...]
Scientists have identified five subtypes of heart failure that could potentially be used to predict future risk for individual patients. The experts at the University College of London (UCL) in the UK used artificial intelligence (AI) tools to uncover the five distinct subtypes. They have also developed an app that could be used by clinicians [...]
A flavanol-rich diet could be the key to helping tackle age-related memory loss. A large-scale study has shown that participants who had a poor diet at the start of a three-year trial and who consumed 500mg of flavanol a day in supplement form, showed improved memory function. The research, published in the journal Proceedings of [...]
A fulfilling sex life in middle age could help reduce the risk of memory decline in later years. A study led by scientists at Penn State University in Pennsylvania in the US tracked the correlation between erectile dysfunction, sexual satisfaction, and cognition in hundreds of men aged between 56 and 68. It found that declines [...]
Millions of osteoarthritis sufferers across the world could soon benefit from a pain relief drug currently used to treat joint issues in horses, cats, dogs and even racing camels. Australian late-stage clinical development company Paradigm Biopharma is investigating injectable pentosan polysulfate sodium (iPPS) as a potential disease-modifying treatment for knee osteoarthritis (KOA). The plant-derived, semi-synthetic [...]
Almhouses have been providing charitable shelter to the elderly in the UK since medieval times. The world's oldest form of social housing. more than 1,000 years after they first opened their doors, they are still providing a place to live to over 36,000 mainly older residents in almost 2,600 almhouses across Britain. The sizes of [...]
It's long been known that the older you get the more difficult it is to fight off infection. This decline in resistance to infectious diseases with age is particularly obvious when it comes to vaccines. Annual flu jabs are a case in point. They are notorious for not having the desired effect on the elderly. [...]
Heart failure patients are at increased risk of dying from their condition on polluted days and up to two days afterward, a world-leading scientific conference has been told. Presenting research at Heart Failure 2023 in Prague, Czechia, and online, a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), Dr Lukasz Kuzmar of the Medical [...]
