Longevity - Page 80

October 27, 2015

Healthy 75-year-old ends life to avoid 'awful' old age

A British woman with no serious health issues ended her life July 21 at a suicide clinic because, she said, she didn't want to grow old.

October 27, 2015

Worse survival after lung cancer surgery for residents of poor neighborhoods

Residents of low-income neighborhoods with few high school graduates may be more likely to die after lung cancer surgery than more affluent patients, a U.S. study finds.

October 27, 2015

Study concludes '80s metalheads turned out OK

Heavy metal was the No. 1-selling music genre in 1989, and parents feared the worst: that Satan worship, drug use, loads of sex, and suicide went along with it, write researchers in the journal Self and Identity.

October 27, 2015

Pope Francis has one lung: What organs can you live without?

Although it's rare to have one lung, as newly elected Pope Francis does, it shouldn't be a significant health issue for him now, experts say. Although you'd probably like to keep all your organs if you can, here are others you can live without

October 27, 2015

Marijuana compound may slow, halt progression of Alzheimer's

Neuroscientists found that extremely low doses of a compound found in marijuana may slow or halt the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.

October 27, 2015

Fewer hip fractures after cataract surgery

In a new study of older adults with cataracts, people who had surgery to improve their vision were less likely to fracture a hip in the next year compared to those who didn't get surgery

October 27, 2015

Scientists Find Spinal Clue to Detecting Dementia

A test to detect those likely to develop Alzheimer's disease before symptoms appear finally may be on the horizon after scientists found changes in spinal fluid can predict the disease with 90 percent accuracy nearly a decade before dementia sets in

October 27, 2015

20 children hospitalized for gun injuries every day in US

Every day, gun injuries send 20 children and teenagers to the hospital in the United States.

October 27, 2015

3-day-old girl dies in typhoon-wrecked hospital

All through her very short life, the parents had squeezed oxygen into her tiny body with a hand-held pump to keep her alive. In the end, their prayers and whatever little medical care doctors could muster in the typhoon-ravaged hospital were not enough.

October 27, 2015

World’s oldest person celebrates 116th birthday

Besse Cooper, the world’s oldest living person celebrated her 116th birthday Sunday