Chronic Inflammation is the Major Cause of Pituitary Gland Aging in Mice
The pituitary gland regulates numerous processes in the body via endocrine signaling. Of particular interest is the relationship between the pituitary gland and the thymus, which appear to influence one another via still poorly understood exchanges of signals. The thymus is of great importance to immune function, but atrophies with age. There is some data to suggest that provoking greater pituary gland activity can reverse that process, at least in mice. Researchers here provide evidence for the age related degeneration of the pituitary gland and its function in the body to be largely the consequence of rising systemic inf...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 22, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
This Insomnia Treatment Easily Beats Sleeping Pills (M)
The study tracked over 200 women who started taking medications around the time of the menopause, when it is common to develop sleeping difficulties. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - May 25, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Sleep subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
If You Think That Only Old People Develop Incontinence, Read This
If you are like me, when you think of adult incontinence you think of someone who is quite old, maybe someone with dementia. That's understandable because certainly there is more incontinence in the older years for varying factors from prostate issues to menopause to dementia. However, a reader opened my eyes and now I know. Due to various illnesses, birth differences, or traumas, many younger people also struggle with it and they face far more of a stigma than their elders.
Continue reading on Egosancares for a powerful story of how this can happen to any of us:
Minding Our Elders: Caregivers Share Their Personal Stories....
Source: Minding Our Elders - May 1, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
It ’s OK to Break the Rules Now and Then
This study introduces an augmented intelligence platform for the real-time synthesis of institutional knowledge captured in EHRs.” One caveat that the researchers acknowledge in the report was that they had yet to conduct prospective validation of the augmented EHR curation approach.A second nference-based investigation reviewed the records of patients who had received more than 94,000 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, more than 36,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine, and 1,745 doses of the Johnson& Johnson vaccine. The study ’s goal was to determine the incidence of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST), w...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - April 26, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Non-Surgical Solution for Fecal Incontinence: Interview with Miles Rosen, CEO of Pelvalon
Fecal incontinence can be extremely challenging for those who suffer it. The condition can be embarrassing, making it difficult for people to tell others or even their doctor about it, and it is more common than you might think. Fecal incontinence can affect anyone, but a key group of patients includes women during menopause, in whom it is often associated with previous pelvic trauma, such as that which occurs during child-birth.
Treatment options are relatively limited and either tend to be minimalist, such as lifestyle changes, or pretty intense, such as expensive surgical implants. There was a gap for a low-risk and ...
Source: Medgadget - April 21, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive GI Ob/Gyn Source Type: blogs
Can some postmenopausal women with breast cancer skip chemotherapy?
Breast cancer remains the most common cancer among women. In the last two decades, the treatment of breast cancers has become personalized. This has been possible due to the subtyping of breast cancers. Breast cancers have been subtyped based on the receptors on the breast cancer cell. The most clinically significant receptors — those that have targeted therapies — are the estrogen and progesterone receptors and the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2). Cancers that have the estrogen and progesterone receptors are termed hormone receptor (HR)-positive cancers.
The development of hormone therapy for HR-positi...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 15, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Salewa T. Salewa Oseni, MD Tags: Cancer Medical Research Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, March 15th 2021
In conclusion, PLG attenuates high calcium/phosphate-induced vascular calcification by upregulating P53/PTEN signaling in VSMCs.
Tsimane and Moseten Hunter-Gatherers Exhibit Minimal Levels of Atrial Fibrillation
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2021/03/tsimane-and-moseten-hunter-gatherers-exhibit-minimal-levels-of-atrial-fibrillation/
Epidemiological data for the Tsimane and Moseten populations in Bolivia shows that they suffer very little cardiovascular disease in later life, despite a presumably greater lifetime burden of infectious disease (and consequent inflammation) than is the case for people ...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 14, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Higher Cardiovascular Health Score Correlates with Lower Epigenetic Age Acceleration
We examined the association between CVH score and EAA adjusting for self-reported race/ethnicity and education. Among the 2,170 participants analyzed, mean age was 64 (7 SD) years. Higher or more favorable CVH scores were associated with lower extrinsic EAA (6 months younger age per 1 point higher CVH score), and lower intrinsic EAA (3 months younger age per 1 point higher CVH score). This work provides initial evidence for epigenetic age acceleration to be considered as a potential early detection biomarker for CVH. Future studies are needed to evaluate if measures to promote optimal CVH through lifestyle and behavioral i...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 9, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
It's Time To Lose the Stigma About Incontinence: People of Any Age Can be Affected
Photo credit Sheka Boychenko
Dear Carol: ...Practically everything that you read about adult incontinence refers to older people with prostate problems, or menopause, or dementia – or whatever. Young people would like to see this condition normalized to some extent. We are not less competent just because we need to use incontinence products. Can you please spread the word? – SL
Continue reading on Egosancares Blog to learn more about younger people and their struggles with the stigma of incontinence:
Purchase Minding Our Elders: Caregivers Share Their Personal Stories – paperback or ebook
General careg...
Source: Minding Our Elders - March 2, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Justice for the Menopause: A Research Agenda
Naomi Cahn (University of Virginia), Justice for the Menopause: A Research Agenda, 42 Columbia J. Gender& L. (2021, Forthcoming): This short essay, prepared for a symposium on menstruation, is an initial effort to catalogue various legal approaches to menopause... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - February 24, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
5 myths about endometriosis
While endometriosis is a common condition, affecting as many as one in every 10 American women, it is complex and often misunderstood. Endometriosis occurs when tissue much like the tissue that normally lines the uterus — called the endometrium — starts to grow elsewhere in the body. These growths may cause pain, scarring, and, in some instances, infertility.
One study shows it can take up to seven years for a woman to get a diagnosis of endometriosis because symptoms may mimic other common conditions, such as irritable bowel syndrome or pelvic inflammatory disease. And misconceptions about the disease, including the f...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - February 12, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kelly Bilodeau Tags: Adolescent health Pain Management Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Only Old People Become Incontinent, Right?
Photo credit Zheka Boychenko
Dear Carol:...but I’ve met other younger people online and in support groups and they have the same complaint that I do. Practically everything that you read about adult incontinence refers to older people with prostate problems, or menopause, or dementia – or whatever. Young people would like to see this condition normalized to some extent. We are not less competent just because we need to use incontinence products. Can you please spread the word? – SL
Continue reading to learn more about the various causes of younger incontinence and how this can be managed:
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Source: Minding Our Elders - February 8, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Let's Banish the Stigma About Incontinence: People of Any Age Can be Affected
Dear Carol: ...Practically everything that you read about adult incontinence refers to older people with prostate problems, or menopause, or dementia – or whatever. Young people would like to see this condition normalized to some extent. We are not less competent just because we need to use incontinence products. Can you please spread the word?
Continue reading on Egosancares Blog to learn more about vulnerable any of us are to incontinence:
Purchase Minding Our Elders: Caregivers Share Their Personal Stories – paperback or ebook
General caregiving or incontinence questions? We’re here to help with ASK CAROL....
Source: Minding Our Elders - January 23, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
The older man and his fertility
Many older man worry about their fertility .They know that a woman's fertility declines as she gets older , and therefore they are naturally concerned that their fertility will decline as well .However, the reason a woman's fertility declines as she gets older is because her ovaries stop producing new eggs after birth . This means she starts running out of eggs as she ages. When her eggs run out , she becomes menopausal .However, the testis is designed very differently.The seminiferous tubules in the testes continuously producing sperm daily, no matter whether the man is 25 or 95 . This is why the freshly produc...
Source: Dr.Malpani's Blog - January 21, 2021 Category: Reproduction Medicine Source Type: blogs
