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Preventing Pressure Sores With Intelligent Bed
Further recognition for Empa's spin-off enterprise "compliant concept": on August 31st in Bern the team's work, "An Intelligent Bed System for the Prevention and Therapy of Decubitus Ulcers" was honored with the CTI Medtech Award 2010. "And the winner is...
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Insulin Implicated In Cell Survival, Cell Metabolism And Stress Response
Researchers at the Buck Institute for Age Research have discovered a novel way in which insulin affects cell metabolism and cell survival. Surprisingly the insulin signaling pathway, which is involved in aging, diabetes and stress response, is active at a deeper level of cell activity than scientists expected. The study appears in the September 8th issue of Cell Metabolism...
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Progeria, The Rare Aging Disease, Linked To Aging In The General Population
Progeria, also known as Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS), is a rare, fatal genetic disease characterized by an appearance of accelerated aging in children...
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Candidates Focus On Health Care Politics
As candidates ramped up campaigning over Labor Day weekend, news outlets examined the role of the new health law in the 2010 elections...
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More Seniors Get Flu Shot After Personalized Reminders, Provider Urging
Personalized post cards or phone calls can be effective in encouraging more seniors to get their annual flu shots, according to a new review of evidence. Professional facilitators are also successful at urging providers to perform a suite of preventive services, including flu shots for seniors. The results apply to people age 60 and older living in the community, the authors note...
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Paying For Long-term Care
The September Policy Brief by Ricardo Rodrigues and Andrea Schmidt aims to present information on the current picture of public and private expenditure on long-term care for older people and to discuss the challenges of financing care. Moreover it provides preliminary results on potential redistribution effects of home care benefits (based on SHARE data)...
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Age And Obesity Increase Complications: Unrelated Kidney Donor Study
Patients who have received a new kidney are significantly more likely to develop transplant renal artery stenosis (TRAS) if they are obese or over 50, according to research published in the September issue of the Journal of Renal Care...
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Mild Cognitive Impairment Is More Common In Men
A new Mayo Clinic study found that the prevalence of mild cognitive impairment was 1.5 times higher in men than in women. The research, part of the Mayo Clinic Study of Aging, also showed a prevalence rate of 16 percent in the population-based study of individuals aged 70-89 without dementia who live in Olmsted County, Minn. The study will be published in the September issue of Neurology...
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Association Between Inflammation, Lower Intelligence And Premature Death
Inflammation is associated with lower intelligence and premature death, according to Swedish scientists from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. "Those with low-grade inflammation performed more poorly on standardised intelligence tests, even after excluding those with signs of current illness...
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Addressing Negative Thoughts Most Effective In Fighting Loneliness
Changing how a person perceives and thinks about others was the most effective intervention for loneliness, a sweeping analysis of previous research has determined. The findings may help physicians and psychologists develop better treatments for loneliness, a known risk factor for heart disease and other health problems...
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