VGTI researchers receive $12.6 million to study West Nile virus in the elderly
...ernment to assist in efforts to better protect the elderly against West Nile virus and related diseases. The grant is funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, a component of the National Institutes of Health. West Nile virus is a seasonal epidemic that occurs throughout the summe...Older patients with acute coronary syndromes not getting recommended treatment
...harge were similar across all age groups; however, elderly patients were less likely to receive clopidogrel (...h rates and complications rose with advancing age, elderly patients who received more recommended therapies were less likely to die than those who did not. Dr....Medicare elimination of essential drugs will affect elderly
...ll have on society. Currently, 24 percent of the elderly on Medicare, or 1.7 million people, will lose this coverage completely. The paper reports that negative effects are likely to take place, including withdrawal reactions, seizures, emergency department visits, and hospital admissions because the Medic...Antipsychotic drugs linked to increased risk of death for some elderly Alzheimer's patients
...a small increased risk of death when used to treat elderly dementia patients, psychiatrists at Johns Hopkins ...razole, olanzapine, quetiapine and risperidone, in elderly patients with dementia, led by Lon S. Schneider, M.D., M.S., of the University of Southern Californi...Atypical antipsychotic drugs for dementia may be associated with small increased risk of death
...hed in the October 19 issue of JAMA. A majority of elderly patients with dementia develop aggression, delusio...he evidence for death associated with their use in elderly patients with dementia. After a search of databases and meeting presentations, the researchers sele...Heart attack death rates found higher in hospitals treating larger share of African Americans
...en caused by the higher rates of poverty among the elderly African-American population, but this was not the ...percent of the hospitals treated 69 percent of the elderly African-American AMI patients. The average Medicare AMI patient was treated in a hospital where 6.9 ...Anemia associated with higher risk of death in the elderly
...ng evidence indicates that anemia is common in the elderly population, but few studies have assessed the asso...ubsequent death over the course of eleven years in elderly adults living in four U.S. communities. Hemoglobin concentrations were determined for participants r...New study shows women more vulnerable to risk of colorectal cancer from tobacco
...pulation. Our data support continued screening of elderly patients." Dr. Walfish and his colleagues conducted a retrospective analysis of 178 patients 75 and older and 318 patients between ages 65 and 69. In both age groups, the researchers found that a similar percentage of patients had polyps or masses (...Children with neurological and neuromuscular diseases at risk for flu-related respiratory failure
...enza-related illness at rates similar to those for elderly persons and adults with chronic medical conditions. Perhaps most concerning to parents and physicians is the potential for serious influenza-associated complications, including carditis (inflammation of the heart), encephalitis, myositis (inflammatio...Evacuation of elders during disasters to be addressed at GSA's upcoming annual meeting
...s can respond more effectively to the needs of the elderly in times of natural disaster, a panel of experts h...explores the implications of rising obesity in the elderly and, in particular, elderly women. Panelists will examine the social, medical, and biological origin...Minimally invasive surgery may increase options for octogenarians with some lung cancers
...v. 8, 2005) Like their younger counterparts, some elderly patients who have early stage non-small cell lung cancer can benefit from a minimally invasive surgical procedure to remove part or all of a lung, according to a study conducted by thoracic surgeons at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and described in the...Youth obsession and reality of ageing set to collide
...ism the risk of alcohol-related problems in the elderly the reluctance of elderly people to work after 65 (despite government encouragement) the isolation experienced by grand par...Johns Hopkins flu expert calls for mandatory vaccination of health care workers
... 40,000 Americans die from influenza, many of them elderly or ill, with weakened immune systems that cannot readily fend off the disease. In an editorial to be published in the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology online Nov. 9, Trish Perl, M.D., M.Sc., concludes that mass vaccination policies...Support system helps overcome barriers for nursing home residents in need of cataract surgery
...ervices to institutionalized, cognitively impaired elderly residents of nursing homes. "Not only is testing vision in these residents more difficult than in community-dwelling individuals, but once residents are identified as having a cataract as the primary cause of vision loss, multiple obstacles prevent ...Clinical burden of stroke greater than that of heart disease in the UK
...disease and that stroke tends to occur in the very elderly whereas heart disease presents in middle age. However, until now, there has never been a reliable study of the comparative epidemiology or relative clinical burdens of cerebrovascular and coronary vascular disease in the same population. In the Oxfo...Hopkins study may change rules for treating heart failure
...what was thought to be the case." In the study, 19 elderly women and men, mostly African-Americans from the Baltimore area, were matched to 17 adults similar in age and risk factors for heart failure: obesity, high blood pressure and enlarged hearts (hypertrophy). All 36 had a slightly elevated ejection fra...Drug compound restores youth to aging arterial cells in elderly hypertensives, Hopkins study shows
...rious effects of arterial aging in the majority of elderly Americans with systolic hypertension, a new study ...argets for new therapies. In the Hopkins study, 13 elderly men and women with systolic hypertension took either daily doses of alagebrium (210 milligrams) for ...Postmenopausal women with heart disease should take aspirin
... were predominantly men," Berger explained. "Also, elderly women have been even less studied, and these are the women who are most likely to benefit from aspirin as a preventative measure." Other members of the team included David Brown, SUNY-Stony Brook School of Medicine; Gregory Burke, Wake Forest Univer...GSA confers 2005 Nathan Shock New Investigator Award to McGill University's Duque
...teogenic cells and how vitamin D deficiency in the elderly might impact bone metabolism. The award was established in 1986 to honor Dr. Nathan Shock, a pioneer in gerontological research at the National Institutes of Health, and a founding member of GSA. The winner traditionally presents a lecture at the An......redicts health status and hospital costs for frail elderly patients, pg 535 Walking speed screening during hospital admission could help clinicians identify patients who will need the most care in the first year post-hospitalization. Baseline walking speed and change in speed over one year were used to pr...