Health News
Older adults benefit from home-based DVD exercise program
Published Date:March 11, 2013
Fitness DVDs are a multimillion-dollar business, and those targeting adults over the age of 55 are a major part of the market. With names like Boomers on the Move, Stronger Seniors and Ageless Yoga, the programs promise much, but few have ever been rigorously tested.
Published Date: March 11, 2013
Lipid researcher, 98, reports on the causes of heart disease
Published Date:February 27, 2013
A 98-year-old researcher argues that, contrary to decades of clinical assumptions and advice to patients, dietary cholesterol is good for your heart unless that cholesterol is unnaturally oxidized (by frying foods in reused oil, eating lots of polyunsaturated fats, or smoking).
Published Date: February 27, 2013
Exercise doesnt only strengthen your heart and muscles it also beefs up your brain. Dozens of studies now show that aerobic exercise can increase the size of critical brain structures and improve cognition in children and older adults.The research is in: Physical activity enhances cognition
Published Date:February 18, 2013
Exercise doesnt only strengthen your heart and muscles it also beefs up your brain. Dozens of studies now show that aerobic exercise can increase the size of critical brain structures and improve cognition in children and older adults.
Published Date: February 18, 2013
Stem-cell approach shows promise for Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Published Date:January 14, 2013
Researchers have shown that transplanting stem cells derived from normal mouse blood vessels into the hearts of mice that model the pathology associated with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) prevents the decrease in heart function associated with DMD.
Published Date: January 14, 2013
Family thought to play part in reducing stress for young Mexicans, study shows
Published Date:January 8, 2013
Family members may play a unique and influential role in buffering Mexican youth against the negative effects of stress as they transition into adulthood, suggests a new study by an interdisciplinary group of researchers at universities in Mexico and the U.S.
Published Date: January 8, 2013
