New research suggests that all forms of antipsychotic drugs significantly increase the risk of stroke. Antipsychotic drugs are used to control psychotic symptoms in patients with psychiatric illnesses, including schizophrenia and some severe forms of depression. They are also used in the elderly to manage specific symptoms of dementia, such as aggression. Research published back [...]
Choosing to walk up stairs instead of taking the elevator cuts the risk of premature death from any cause by 15%, according to scientists from the University of Geneva in Switzerland. 69 members of staff at the university, who led a sedentary lifestyle prior to the study, were asked to use the stairs at work [...]
A three-year-long analysis of the social determinants of health by the World Health Organization (WHO) has led them to the conclusion that social factors – not genetics – are to blame for the huge variations in ill health and life expectancy seen around the world, a report concludes. The report, which was complied by a [...]
Scientists have made a major breakthrough in the fight against cancer by unraveling the code of the enzyme telomerase, which plays a key role in the growth of more than nine out of ten cancers. Telomeres are cellular structures that limit cells to a fixed number of divisions by shortening each time the cell divides, [...]
New research shows that longevity and disability do not necessarily come hand in hand. The study, which began in 1998, tracked 2,234 Danish people born in 1905 for a total of seven years. The majority had died by the end of the study – 156 of the original 2,234 participants reached their 100th birthday; however [...]
DASIS Older Adults in Substance Abuse Treatment Admissions In admissions who were unemployed 40 percent, labor force dropouts 47 percent, or disabled 41 percent. By contrast, in the Nation as whole, data from the Census for this age range show percent had never married, percent were formerly married, and percent were currently married. percent. Past [...]