Aging

MARLOW, England, February 8 /PRNewswire/ -- - UK Launch of new and Gentle Dermal Filler Which Promises to Help Patients Feel the Difference and Provide Long-Lasting Results Allergan, the makers of BOTOX(R) / VISTABEL(R) (botulinum toxin type A), today announced the UK launch of Juvéderm(R) ULTRA, a new range of dermal filler gel range for the treatment of facial wrinkles and folds. Juvéderm(R) ULTRA contains an anaesthetic, meaning people have a gentle injection experience. According to preliminary results from a study of 60 women released at the International Master Course on Aging…

Researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) have reported a 10-fold life extension in the complex animal C. elegans, tiny worms that live in the soil. Reported in the February 2008 issue of the journal Aging Cell, the discovery was made by a team of researchers headed by Robert Shmookler Reis, professor in the UAMS Departments of Geriatrics, Biochemistry/Molecular Biology and Pharmacology/Toxicology and research scientist at the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System. C. elegans are barely visible to the eye but are helping scientists unravel the causes of…

Older women are more prone to depression and are more likely to remain depressed than older men, according to a new study by Yale School of Medicine researchers in the February Archives of General Psychiatry. The Yale team also found that women were less likely to die while depressed than older men, indicating that women live longer with depression than men. This factor, along with the higher likelihood of women becoming depressed and remaining depressed, collectively contribute to the higher burden of depression among older women. Major depression affects about one to two percent of older…

A Columbia University Medical Center research team has uncovered how stimulation of a particular brain region can help stave off the deficits in working memory associated with extended sleep deprivation. Working memory is a specific form of short-term memory that relates to the ability to store task-specific information for a limited timeframe, e.g., where your car is parked in a huge mall lot or remembering a phone number for few seconds before writing it down. It has long been established that cognitive performance, such as working memory, declines with sleep deprivation. “We are excited…

GAITHERSBURG, Maryland, January 30 /PRNewswire/ -- - The Model 1173 simplifies IP Camera deployment and lowers installation costs by extending streaming video up to 6000 feet/1830 meters over existing copper infrastructure Patton Electronics -- the leader in business and carrier-class network access, connectivity, and Voice-over-IP equipment -- unveils the world's first IP Camera Extender, the Patton Model 1173, at IIPSEC 2008 in Coventry, UK this week. Compatible with any IP camera on the market, Patton's latest network-extension innovation is optimized to deliver high-quality streaming…

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, January 22 /PRNewswire/ -- - Cheetah Medical Inc. Introduces New System to Measure Accurately, and Non-invasively Patients' Cardiac Output and Other Hemodynamic Parameters Cheetah Medical Inc. announces the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved for marketing the Reliant, a highly accurate, portable cardiac output monitor which provides a noninvasive window to cardiac and hemodynamic function. The Reliant monitor is powered by Cheetah's unique, patented BIOREACTANCE(R) Technology, which has been used effectively in over 1,000 patients in various clinical…

Researchers from the University of Granada have for the first time analyzed the antioxidant properties of olive oil, a product rich in polyphenols. The Environmental, Biochemical and Nutritional Analytical-Control Research Group had already carried out the polyphenolic characterization of food products, such as honey and beer. In the 1960s, Ancer Keys, a US expert on nutrition, studied the health benefits of the Mediterranean diet for the first time. Since then many studies on the benefits of olive oil have been conducted. According to several studies performed in Italy, Spain and Greece (the…

Loneliness is commonly regarded as a social phenomenon in which individual personality differences contribute to its severity. Some people enjoy solitude, for example, because they never feel lonely, while people with high degrees of loneliness have shorter life expectancies than people who never feel lonely. There may be more to it than that. Recent research shows that the gene expression in the immune cells of people with chronically high levels of loneliness is different than people who do not feel lonely. Even more telling, some genes were underexpressed in the same subjects, including…

A 53-page study designed to provide a comparison between the KC-767 Advanced Tanker (AT), based on the 767, and its major competitor in the U.S. Air Force's KC-135 Tanker Replacement Program states that a commercial 767 airplane is substantially more fuel efficient than the larger Airbus 330 - the 767 fleet burned 24 percent less fuel than the A-330s and would save approximately $14.6 billion in fuel costs. That number is significant since the Air Force spent approximately $6.6 billion on aviation fuel costs in 2006. The study used published data to calculate the fuel consumption of flying…

In studies involving more than 35,000 people and a survey across the entire human genome, an international team supported in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has found evidence that common genetic variants recently linked to osteoarthritis may also play a minor role in human height. The findings were released in Nature Genetics. The variants most strongly associated with height in the new genome-wide association study lie in a region of the human genome thought to influence expression of a gene for growth differentiation factor 5 (GDF5), which is a protein involved in the…