Gerontology

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- With support from a three-year $2.1 million agreement with Insight Therapeutics, a private company that focuses on the health care of older adults, a team of Brown University public health researchers will look to…

A deep neural network model helps predict healthcare visits by elderly people, with the potential to save millions If healthcare providers could accurately predict how their services would be used, they could save large sums of money by…

Endocrine Society, Avalere Health launch hypoglycemia clinical tools WASHINGTON--The Endocrine Society and Avalere Health introduced the first-ever quality measures to help healthcare providers assess how well they identify and care for…

Increased risk does not impact older adults with subclinical hypothyroidism WASHINGTON--While older adults with hypothyroidism face an elevated risk of death, individuals with subclinical hypothyroidism, a milder form of underactive…

New research will be live in npj Digital Medicine on December 12, 2019, that will feature a machine learning app aimed at preventing patients from severe fall-related injuries and death. This AI technology was developed by Houston…

The colour of our eyes or the straightness of our hair is linked to our DNA, but the development of Alzheimer's disease isn't exclusively linked to genetics, suggest recently published findings.Credit: Provided by Baycrest The…

Participants who ate a Western diet were three times more likely to develop late stage of this debilitating eye condition BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Participants who ate a diet high in red and processed meat, fried food, refined grains and high-fat…

Receiving federal aid allows a family to optimize how they support one another Federal disability benefits can lead to increases in other support for beneficiaries, such as in-kind assistance from adult children, according to a new RAND…

Salk researchers show how two experimental Alzheimer's drugs protect the brains of mice from other aspects of aging LA JOLLA--(December 10, 2019) In mouse models of Alzheimer's disease, the investigational drug candidates known as CMS121…

Dr. Janko Nikolich-Zugich has received a prestigious $4.5 million MERIT Award from the NIH to pursue a new, more promising way to study human agingCredit: The University of Arizona Health Sciences TUCSON, Ariz. - The human body gets…