Analysis: Older men treated for early prostate cancer live longer than those not treated
...rapy for early-stage prostate cancer increased the lifespan of men between 65 and 80 years old compared to observation, sometimes known as "watch and wait." Published in the Dec. 13 issue of Journal of the American Medical Association, the study supported a benefit of treatment even for men whose disease had...Decision making by the growing elderly population is uncharted territory
...eded to understand how decisions differ across the lifespan so that better advice can be tailored to older adults, Peters said. "We know quite a bit about how the brain processes information, but we dont know a whole lot about how that is going to interact in decisions with experiences and emotional prompts,"...Diagnostic tests for malaria underused in Zambia
... to artemisinin-based combination therapy, and the lifespan of these highly effective new therapies will be reduced," the authors conclude....Syphilis screening, lithium fights neurodegeneration, monoclonal antibodies against avian flu
...on in these animals. Lithium did not improve the lifespan of the Sac1154Q/2Q mice either (although this could be because the mutant SCA1 protein has some deleterious effects outside the brain). Lithium alone is thus unlikely to be a miracle cure for spinocerebellar ataxia, but the research suggests that is ......1,100 days. If NDGA turns out to extend maximal lifespan by 20 or 30 percent, people would accept that as an important finding, Miller says. No one excited by these early results in mice is advised to bulk up on creosote bush leaves as a way to defy old age. If NDGA pushes the aging envelope in the final...