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Advisers to the UK government suggest that air pollution may be linked to dementia and cognitive decline in older people.
A new study found that HIV infection may cut about five years off an individual’s life span. The new study highlights the importance of an early diagnosis as HIV has been found to have a substantial impact on ageing within just two to three years of contracting the virus. Published in the Journal iScience, the [...]
Michael Greve founded the Forever Healthy Foundation in 2015, which offers strategies to slow the ageing process. The idea for the foundation sparked whilst working on another of his entrepreneurial journeys after he had developed an unhealthy lifestyle. Here, Michael tells us about the birth of Forever Healthy and their exciting plans for the future. [...]
The Government has announced a new £5 million innovation fund for veterans’ healthcare. Launched on the 18th of July, the fund will provide veterans with innovative healthcare treatments, including virtual reality, artificial intelligence and engineering. The funding will support charities and organisations who are looking into researching and trialing new health technologies that could help [...]
The company will use the funds to advance digital solutions to reduce cost of care
Numerous studies have found a correlation between oral health and optimal ageing and diseases, but why does this happen? And how does it work?
A new trial of robot surgeons in hip replacement surgery has been launched. The study, by University of Warwick, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, and the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, aims to help determine whether use of robots in hip surgery results in better outcomes for patients. Hip replacement is one of the most [...]
According to a new study, people who have no dementia risk factors, including the likes of diabetes, hearing loss and smoking, have brain health similar to those who are 10 to 20 years younger than them. The study discovered that a singular dementia risk factor has the potential to reduce cognition by the equivalent of [...]
Diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease can be a relatively slow process involving lengthy in-person neuropsychological exams, transcriptions by clinicians, reviews and detailed analysis. Researchers at Boston University, however, have developed a new tool that could now automate the process, with the eye to eventually move it to online. Their machine learning-powered computational model can detect cognitive impairment from audio recordings [...]
Agetech World spoke to Pete Williams, founder of Functional Medicine Associates, on how functional medicine can address cognitive decline and chronic diseases, and support optimal ageing What is functional medicine in a nutshell and what is its role in addressing chronic diseases? Conventional medicine represents one problem solved by one answer, which the majority of [...]
