Posts Tagged ‘geriatrics’
Health & Medicine - Dec 3, 2009 17:11 - 4 Comments
Nanoscopic tour of aging bone
U. MICHIGAN (US)—Scientists are studying a noninvasive way to get inside our bones and learn more about how disease and aging might affect them. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Aug 6, 2009 4:00 - 0 Comments
‘Staging’ key to treating older cancer patients
A new study suggests that older adults diagnosed with cancer—like 92-year-old Louis Falzer, who survived prostate cancer—are more likely to become frail and vulnerable. The findings could be helpful in developing a new staging approach to caring for older adults. (View this and other videos at Futurity’s YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/user/futurityvideo)
Health & Medicine - Jul 2, 2009 12:51 - 0 Comments
Older Yanks top Brits in battle of the brains
“Given the growing number of older adults worldwide,” says Kenneth Langa, University of Michigan professor of medicine, “future cross-national studies aimed at identifying the medical and social factors that might prevent or delay cognitive decline in older adults would make important and valuable contributions to public health.”
