Aging

Low-Cost Drug For Indian Diabetic Patients: Merck

If you are a diabetic, there is some good news for you, a multinational pharmaceutical company has introduced a new low-cost, hassle-free patent protected drug to check the disease. “The drug mainly for type II diabetic patients is once a day pill, meal independent with no dosage adjustments and can be prescribed by even doctors [...]

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Elders Over 70 Still Enjoy Sex

Research has found that older people are having more sex than they were thought and that they really enjoy their sexual lives. A team of researchers from University of Gothenburg in Sweden questioned 1500 people at their ages of 70 during the periods between 1971 and 1972, 1976 and 1977, 1992 and 1993, 2000 and [...]

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FDA Approves Intel’s Home Health Monitoring System

FDA approved a new home health monitoring device from Intel. It is called Health Guide. This home health monitoring device is easy to use and aimed at helping those with chronic health conditions, who need to monitor health regularly. Intel’s Home Health Monitoring System is a device combining several meters in one and allowing to [...]

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Potential to prevent loss of insulin in type 2 diabetes

There are two completely different diseases known as diabetes. Type 1 is an autoimmune condition that often starts in childhood or adolescence. Type 2 is a metabolic disorder sometimes associated with lifestyle. In both cases, the insulin-secreting beta cells in the pancreas die, albeit at different rates. Until now, it was thought that the processes [...]

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Barriers To Effective Pain Management Still Remain In States

New report on pain management shows seven states have improved Pain Policies in the Last Year, but some barriers still remain. States continue to make steady progress in adopting balanced policies that help people with pain to alleviate their suffering, according to a report released today that evaluates state policies to improve pain management and [...]

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Potential Epidemic Of Type 2 Diabetes In Young Adults

How will the epidemic of childhood obesity today affect the future health of Americans? As concern about children’s health grows along with their waistlines, medical experts fear that the childhood obesity epidemic could lead to large numbers of younger adults developing type 2 diabetes, causing serious and lasting health complications for future generations of Americans. [...]

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New Tool For Studying Vision, Eye Disease

The tiny eyeless C. elegans roundworm, one of the most widely used animals in biological research, can detect flashes of light and responds to them by quickly wriggling away, a University of Michigan biologist and his colleagues have discovered. The finding should lead to an expanded research role for C. elegans, already one of the [...]

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AHRQ, AARP To Help Adults Over 50 Stay Healthy

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the AARP released two new checklists designed to help men and women over the age of 50 learn what they can do to stay healthy and prevent disease. AHRQ and AARP also released an accompanying wall chart, the Staying Healthy at 50+ timeline, that provides information about [...]

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Serious Nursing Home Citations

NursingHome The numberof nursing homes nationwide that were cited for placing residents in%26quot;immediate jeopardy%26quot; increased by 22% from 2000 to 2006, according toa USA Today analysis of CMS records.The citations are the most serious reprimand inspectors can issue and oftenfollow cases in which residents have been physically or sexually abused or didnot receive their medications, [...]

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Drug Combo Could Lower Diabetes Complications, Costs

A highly detailed mathematical simulation model can help people with undiagnosed diabetes identify whether they likely have the disease and can predict ways for dramatically reducing the costs and complications associated with this now epidemic illness. The May issue also includes a study showing that diabetes, which has been steadily rising in prevalence for decades, [...]

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Gene Therapy Provides Vision To Nearly Blind People

Scientists employing a gene therapy have provided partial vision to patients who were nearly blind from a condition known as Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) — a severe form of retinitis pigmentosa. Initial results from the clinical trial, which was funded in part by the Foundation Fighting Blindness, were published today in the New England Journal [...]

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Diabetes Is More Dangerous Than Thought

Diabetes is thought not to be as dangerous as it is in reality, shows the results of a resent survey, which now urges the need to educate the public about the serious dangers of diabetes. The survey was conducted by the American Diabetes Association asking people to rank various diseases on a 10 points scale. [...]

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