The typical vaccination for influenza contains three strains of the influenza virus, carefully chosen to bring the greatest relief to the largest audience. One or two of those virus strains changes each year, based …

One of the most widely used prostate cancer screening techniques can detect cancer many years before other evidence of the disease develops.  Prostate cancer is a slow-growing cancer, often taking ten years or longer to …

The final results of a study involving thousands of male and female pneumonia patients, aged from 65 to 94, has revealed a questionable degree of benefit of annual influenza vaccinations in the elderly population.  In …

We need less sleep as we get older, according to a report released this week in Current Biology. The report found that healthy older adults sleep less even when they have the opportunity for more …

Reporting from the Washington University School of Medicine, in St. Louis, Missouri, Pablo F. Soto, MD, says older hearts can work like younger hearts when training at the endurance level of physical activity.
Soto’s research team …

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), have just released the news that they have been able to identify a certain form of Alzheimer’s disease long before the obvious symptoms appear.  These particular …

While most people are aware of the risk of breaking a hip when an elderly person falls, fewer people are aware that almost 50% of the deaths caused by falls in the elderly are the …

Scientists have found that taking Ibuprofen may ward off the development of Alzheimer’s disease. According to a team of investigators at Boston University School of Medicine, people who took Ibuprofen long term, specifically more than …

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) strongly recommend a new vaccine, Zostavax, for anyone age 60 or older. The vaccine reduces the incidence of painful shingles, also known as herpes zoster, which …

A team of researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital’s Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease (MGH-MIND) and the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have discovered that the rate at which Parkinson’s disease progresses is a reflection …