Skip to content

Med-stat.info

The latest health news

  • Coronavirus
  • Biotech
  • Health Tech
  • First Opinion
  • In the Lab
  • Pharma
Main Menu

Tag: aging

First Opinion

Opinion: Make 2023 the year of prioritizing women’s health

22.01.2023

Thirty years ago this week, the bill that became the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993 — a game changer for research on women’s health — was introduced …

Read More
Health

Brains of Black Americans age faster, study finds, with racial stressors a likely factor

14.11.2022

The brains of Black adults in the U.S. age more quickly than those of white and Hispanic adults, showing features linked to Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias as early as …

Read More
First Opinion

Opinion: Listen: Home health care is facing devastating ‘clawbacks’

26.10.2022

Terry Wilcox’s grandmother lived in an isolated house at the top of a hill overlooking the magical mountains and valleys of the Ozarks until, as she tells it, “the day …

Read More
First Opinion

Opinion: Medicare’s cuts to home health are a step in the wrong direction

11.10.2022

My grandmother lived at the top of a hill overlooking the magical mountains and valleys of the Ozarks until the day we literally had to drag her off of it. …

Read More
First Opinion

Opinion: Certified nursing assistants do important work. They deserve to be paid a living wage for it

07.10.2022

In mid-April 2020, as Covid-19 shutdowns and lockdowns were being put in place across the U.S., my grandmother’s health started to decline. With so many unknowns, the assisted living facility …

Read More
Health

Zapping the brain with electricity shown to boost older people’s short- and long-term memory

22.08.2022

Sending weak electrical current into the brain for 20 minutes a day for four days in a row reversed declines in working and long-term memory that come with aging, scientists …

Read More
In the Lab

As billionaires race to fund anti-aging projects, a much-discussed trial goes overlooked

09.08.2022

This story has been excerpted from the STAT Report “The race for longevity: How scientists — and industry — are seeking to extend healthy lives.” Beating back the diseases of …

Read More
In the Lab

Eggs can survive decades without signs of aging. Now, scientists may know why

20.07.2022

In a high-stakes evolutionary gambit, female mammals are born with a finite supply of immature eggs. Propagating future generations depends on this reserve of pre-egg cells, or “primordial oocytes,” staying …

Read More
Health

In the label ‘adult failure to thrive,’ medicine reveals its own failures

12.07.2022

The death certificate made everything worse. Seth Fischer was already angry: a physical feeling, an overwhelming internal buzz. He would go for runs, only to find himself passing the white …

Read More

Posts navigation

1 2 … 5 Next
Copyright © Med-stat.info
  • Terms of Service
  • Privacy Policy