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Discrimination may speed up the biological processes of ageing, according to a new study led by researchers at the NYU School of Global Public Health. The research links interpersonal discrimination to changes at the molecular level, revealing a potential root cause of disparities in age-related illness and death Research shows that people who experience discrimination [...]
Patients’ risk of falling in the next 12 months could be predicted from their NHS data using a newly developed calculator. eFalls is a falls prediction model which uses routinely available primary care electronic health record data, the first of its kind in the world. Developed and tested by researchers from the University of Leeds, [...]
A 30-year study from researchers in the US has linked ultra-processed food to a slightly higher risk of early death. Higher consumption of most ultra-processed foods is linked to a slightly higher risk of death, with ready-to-eat meat, poultry, and seafood based products, sugary drinks, dairy based desserts, and highly processed breakfast foods showing the strongest [...]
A research team from the Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology - Cibio of UniTrento recently launched two European studies funded by the Horizon Europe - EIC Pathfinder Open programme that aim to investigate how to fight cancer with artificial cells that are capable of detecting and treating it. The two studies have a [...]
Loneliness is higher in younger and older adulthood and lowest during midlife, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study that examined nine longitudinal studies from around the world. The study, which is published in the journal Psychological Science, also identified several risk factors for heightened loneliness across the whole lifespan, including social isolation, sex, education and physical [...]
Researchers from Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center says results from a new study examining the role of aspirin in breast cancer treatment have revealed critical issues related to health equity and aging that have broad implications for cancer and other disease intervention trials. The study, called the Alliance trial, was launched after researchers noted [...]
A new study using American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program data has revealed that both frailty and the type of surgical procedure a patient has can impact postoperative outcomes among elderly patients, but that procedure type and its risk level has a greater effect. Frailty is a well-established predictor of complications and [...]
A new study led by University of Colorado Boulder engineers helps explain why the older we get, the slower we tend to move. The research is one of the first studies to experimentally tease apart the competing reasons why people over age 65 might not be as quick on their feet as they used to [...]
Researchers have found that ChatGPT may hold promise as a tool to manage medication and polypharmacy—which could be particularly helpful in the care of older adults. Polypharmacy, or the concurrent use of five or more medications, is common in older adults and increases the risk of adverse drug interactions. While de-prescribing unnecessary drugs can combat [...]
Alzheimer's experts behind the new Alzheimer’s Prevention Day on May 15 share provide an update on the current picture for Alzheimer's treatment. Everybody wants a cure for Alzheimer’s. The medical industry has spent around $100 billion searching for one and, so far, come up relatively empty-handed with over thirty failed drug trials. Yet a simple [...]
