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Aging
Study: Tai Chi Helps Fight Depression Among the Elderly
Save the karate for the kids. To stave off depression among the elderly, a new study proposes the practice of a gentler martial art — tai chi.
Dwarfism May Hold Key to Fighting Cancer and Diabetes, and Living a Long Life
Growth hormone is touted as an anti-aging remedy, but scientists studying a group of short-statured Ecuadoreans might beg to differ.
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Are Unrealistic Life Expectations to Blame for Baby Boomer Suicides?
Recent news has focused attention on suicides in teenagers and children, and while early deaths in this group can be harrowing, the overall rates of suicide in young people are not especially high. Rather, it is the elderly who …
If You Can Balance On One Leg, You Might Live Longer
We’ve all known that physical fitness and dexterity are related, and that fitness and longevity are related. But who knew that dexterity and long life had a correlation all their own?
Potential for New Blood Test for Alzheimer’s
With the Alzheimer’s Association preparing to release new guidelines for diagnosing the degenerative brain disease ever earlier in a patient’s lifetime, the race is on to find new and simpler ways of testing for the disorder. …
Looking younger may mean living longer
Informally, it’s a measure medical professionals have been using for centuries—if an adult patient looks “old for his age,” that’s generally considered a sign of poor health. A new study published in the British Medical Journal put that folk wisdom to the test, in a study of more than 1,800 twins ages 70 and older. As part of the
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Skin damage: the impact of smoking, sun and alcohol
Of the 1,800 sets of twins that journeyed to Twinsburg, Ohio last year for the annual Twins Days Festival, 65 pairs of both identical and fraternal twins were recruited by a team of dermatologists from Case Western Reserve School of Medicine for a study about the impact of sun exposure, smoking, alcohol consumption and weight on the
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Fitness fades with age, more so after 45
Watch out for that mid-life speed bump—turns out age 45 is a doozy. A report published this week in the Archives of Internal Medicine upends conventional wisdom about fitness and aging.
Until now, most experts thought people’s fitness levels declined in a linear fashion as they aged. But the new report suggests the downward march …