May 24, 2023
(The New Yorker) – In becoming lost, she experienced one of the disease’s most common symptoms: the unravelling of the brain’s navigational systems. According to some estimates, more than sixty per cent of people with Alzheimer’s disease will wander away … Read More
May 23, 2023
(STAT News) – The incarcerated people at Federal Medical Center Devens should have been some of the first to receive the Covid vaccines, back when they first came out in December 2020. At the time, the country was prioritizing high-risk … Read More
May 23, 2023
(The Guardian) – Even more revolutionary would be “care bots” such as Pepper, a semi-humanoid bot that engages in conversation and leads exercises or games. It’s one of several such bots that the Japanese government has introduced to residential care … Read More
May 19, 2023
(NPR) – Medicare coverage for at-home COVID-19 tests ended last week, but the scams spawned by the temporary pandemic benefit could have lingering consequences for seniors. Medicare advocates around the country who track fraud noticed an eleventh-hour rise in complaints … Read More
May 15, 2023
(Axios) – Promising clinical trial results from another new Alzheimer’s drug haven’t put to bed questions about how much the treatments actually benefit patients, and whether their strong points outweigh their safety risks. Why it matters: Preliminary data for Eli … Read More
May 4, 2023
(New York Times) – “Short telomeres were thought to be bad — people with premature aging syndromes had short telomeres — so, by analogy, long telomeres were thought to be good,” said Dr. Mary Armanios, professor of oncology at Johns … Read More
May 3, 2023
(Wired) – The routine was familiar for Hillard Kaplan, an anthropology and health economics professor at Chapman University in Orange, California, who has been working alongside the Tsimane for 20 years. His life’s work is to study how people in … Read More
May 3, 2023
(Associated Press) – The U.S. approved the first vaccine for RSV on Wednesday, shots to protect older adults against a respiratory virus that’s most notorious for attacking babies but endangers their grandparents, too. The Food and Drug Administration decision makes … Read More
May 2, 2023
(Wired) – The ovary is a time machine. It travels to the future, reaching old age ahead of the rest of the body. At birth, each ovary contains around a million follicles—tiny, fluid-filled sacs that hold immature eggs. But the … Read More
May 1, 2023
(Wired) – The guests were helped out of the van and taken in twos into a room with two beds. “We really had no idea what to expect,” MJ tells me. She is in her early eighties and lives in … Read More
