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HA Blog Top 10 for January: Reform and BeyondEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Here in DC we’re bracing for the storm of the century — snow storm, that is. What better time to catch up on some health policy reading? We list here the top 10 most-read posts from January on Health Affairs Blog. Topics cover health reform, health care costs, the mammography guidelines controversy, and more. And don’t forget the Top 20 most-read Health Affairs articles from 2009. They’re still free access for one more week. Here’s the list from Health Affairs Blog for January: Health Care Reform: State Winners And Losers by Claudia Schur and Marc Berk Would Reform Bills Control Costs? A Re...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - February 5, 2010 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jane Hiebert-White Tags: Aging All Categories Blog Cost Health Reform Long-Term Care Policy Politics Spending Source Type: blogs

carmen logie, pubmed.gov: canadian AIDS Care study confirms HIV/AIDS stigma’s negative impact on health & quality of life in HIVers (2089)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study examined the relationships between HIV-related stigma and a range of demographic, social, physical and health characteristics. A meta-analysis was conducted to assess the overall strength and direction of these relationships. Twenty-four studies of PLHIV, conducted in North America and published in peer-reviewed journals between January of 2000 and November of 2007, were examined and their findings integrated. The heterogeneity of reported results was also assessed and examined. Our review revealed substantial variability in the ways researchers measure participants’ HIV-related stigma as well as their phy...
Source: aids-write.org - February 4, 2010 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: HIV prevention justice alliance LA city AIDS coordinator's office McCAB McNC aging and HIV/AIDS aids & bubonic plague & 1918 flu aids.org americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids beingALIVE-la black msm ga Source Type: blogs

mohammad rajja, blitz (bangladesh): social determinants of health (2088)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Social determinants of the health by Mohammad Rajja February 3, 2010 chers— the discussion that follows concerns the social factors (determinants) driving poor health — poverty, malnutrition, gender and more. it’s a bit of a wrestling match with english, but all the more interesting because of that. think of it as a bit of a tone poem. and rajja’s english is way better than my bangladeshi. namaste —rk There are more than a few social determinants of the health of populations in the [bangladesh] region. These encompass eight major ones discuss[ed] below. Other connected factors include stress, ...
Source: aids-write.org - February 3, 2010 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: LA city AIDS coordinator's office aging and HIV/AIDS aids & bubonic plague & 1918 flu apla asian-pacific hiv/aids beingALIVE-la black msm gay hiv/aids black women with aids champ citizen journalism criminalization of HIV/AIDS Source Type: blogs

enrique rivero, UCLA newsroom: new research model predicts emergence of drug-resistant HIV/AIDS strains (2087)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Study predicts HIV drug resistance will surge By Enrique Rivero January 22, 2010 chers— there are several useful lilnks at the end of this post. namaste —rk New research based on a novel mathematical model predicts that a wave of drug-resistant HIV strains will emerge in San Francisco within the next five years. These strains could prove disastrous by hindering control of the HIV pandemic. In a study published Jan. 14 on the website of the journal Science, researchers from the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA and the University of California, San Francisco’s HIV AIDS Program at...
Source: aids-write.org - February 3, 2010 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: HIV prevention justice alliance LA city AIDS coordinator's office aging and HIV/AIDS aids & bubonic plague & 1918 flu americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids beingALIVE-la black msm gay hiv/aids black women w Source Type: blogs

john hoeffel, latimes: LA city council votes 9-3 to pass “strict” medical cannabis ordinance (2086)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Los Angeles City Council approves medical marijuana ordinance that will shut down hundreds of dispensaries By John Hoeffel January 26, 2010 In a 9-3 vote, the Los Angeles City Council today gave its final approval to an ordinance that will shut down hundreds of medical marijuana dispensaries and impose strict rules on the location and operation of the dispensaries that are allowed. The measure passed quickly, without debate. The ordinance, which the council first began discussing more than 4 1/2 years ago, will cap the number of dispensaries at 70 but make an exception to allow all those that registered with the city in 20...
Source: aids-write.org - February 3, 2010 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: HIV prevention justice alliance LA city AIDS coordinator's office McCAB McNC aging and HIV/AIDS americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids beingALIVE-la black msm gay hiv/aids black women with aids champ citizen jou Source Type: blogs

frank stoltze, KPCC (89.3): LA city council members discuss pot experiences in past (2085)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Medical cannabis advocate and rastafarian minister Ali Rashi offering public comment at a december Los Angeles City Council meeting about safe access and distribution. a great photo by Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Image captures some of the feel of the debate —rk LA City Council members talk about their marijuana use by Frank Stoltze Jan. 26, 2010 The Los Angeles City Council Tuesday [approved] a new ordinance that would shut down most medical marijuana dispensaries in the city. It would place a cap of 70, with up to about 140 pot shops grandfathered in. KPCC surveyed councilmembers about whether they’d ever smoked pot...
Source: aids-write.org - February 3, 2010 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: HIV prevention justice alliance LA city AIDS coordinator's office McCAB McNC aging and HIV/AIDS americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids black msm gay hiv/aids black women with aids champ citizen journalism crimin Source Type: blogs

Lecture: Survivor Health Wisdom: Strive To Thrive While Growing Older With HIVEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Nelson Vergel's HIV Blog)
Source: Nelson Vergel's HIV Blog - February 2, 2010 Category: HIV AIDS Tags: lipodystrophy lipoatrophy HIV fatigue HIV aging HIV bone AIDS HIV body Source Type: blogs

Older Brains Need Less Sleep?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
As we age we sleep less without an increase in sleepiness. WESTCHESTER, Ill. A study in the Feb. 1 issue of the journal SLEEP suggests that healthy older adults without sleep disorders can expect to have a reduced "sleep need" and to be less sleepy during the day than healthy young adults. Results show that during a night of eight hours in bed, total sleep time decreased significantly and progressively with age. Older adults slept about 20 minutes less than middle-aged adults, who slept 23 minutes less than young adults. The number of awakenings and the amount of time spent awake after initial sleep onset increased sign...
Source: FuturePundit - February 1, 2010 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Randall Parker Tags: Aging Brain Studies Source Type: blogs

Do You Refer to Yourselves as “We” in a Couple?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
If you do, congratulations! You’re likely better at conflict resolution with your partner than couples who don’t refer to themselves as “we.” How do we know? Well, conversations can tell us a lot about how couples view themselves, both individually and as a couple. By analyzing conversations between couples, you can learn a lot about their interactions: UC Berkeley researchers analyzed conversations between 154 middle-aged and older couples about points of disagreement in their marriages and found that those who used pronouns such as “we,” “our” and “us” behaved more positively toward o...
Source: World of Psychology - January 29, 2010 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: Aging Brain and Behavior General Men's Issues Mental Health and Wellness Relationships Research Women's Issues Berkeley Researchers Central News Co Dependency Conflict Resolution Conventional Wisdom Conversations Couples Disa Source Type: blogs

Moderately Overweight Elderly Live Longer?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Once you hit 70 is being overweight actually adaptive? Adults aged over 70 years who are classified as overweight are less likely to die over a ten year period than adults who are in the 'normal' weight range, according to a new study published today in the Journal of The American Geriatrics Society. It is hard to tease out the direction of cause and effect in a study such as this one. For example, a person who was overweight in their 50s and into their 60s could develop a disease that causes weight loss down to a "normal" weight by the time they hit 70. Then they die in their 70s from a disease that caused them to lose we...
Source: FuturePundit - January 29, 2010 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Randall Parker Tags: Aging Weight Studies Source Type: blogs

Macrophage Growth Factor Rejuvenates Immune System?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study has been published in the... (Source: FuturePundit)
Source: FuturePundit - January 27, 2010 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Randall Parker Tags: Aging Immune System Source Type: blogs

Some Antioxidants Reduce VasodilatorsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In sufficient doses antioxidants can squelch needed signaling chemicals in the body with harmful effect. Antioxidants increasingly have been praised for their benefits against disease and aging, but recent studies at Kansas State University show that they also can cause harm. Researchers in K-State's Cardiorespiratory Exercise Laboratory have been studying how to improve oxygen delivery to the skeletal muscle during physical activity by using antioxidants, which are nutrients in foods that can prevent or slow the oxidative damage to the body. Their findings show that sometimes antioxidants can impair muscle function. "Anti...
Source: FuturePundit - January 27, 2010 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Randall Parker Tags: Aging Cardiovascular Studies Source Type: blogs

A Storm in a TeacupEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
So says GlaxoSmithKline CEO Andrew Witty about the Sirtris controversy - see this Forbes story for more. I hope he's right. I actually would like to see good things come out of sirtuin research - the biology's clearly interesting enough. And I would like to think that GSK didn't blow $720 million, because we could all use that sort of money these days. This story will only be settled for sure in the clinic, with the agents the GSK is developing. Good luck to them. I fear that they might need it, but I hope that they don't. (Source: In the Pipeline)
Source: In the Pipeline - January 26, 2010 Category: Chemists Tags: Aging and Lifespan Source Type: blogs

Growth Hormone Lack Not Life ShorteningEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Low growth hormone among dwarves in a state in Brazil does not shorten their life expectancies. People profoundly deficient in human growth hormone (HGH) due to a genetic mutation appear to live just as long as people who make normal amounts of the hormone, a new study shows. The findings suggest that HGH may not be the "fountain of youth" that some researchers have suggested. "Without HGH, these people still live long, healthy lives, and our results don't seem to support the notion that lack of HGH slows or accelerates the aging process," says Roberto Salvatori, M.D., associate professor in the Department of Endocrinology...
Source: FuturePundit - January 26, 2010 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Randall Parker Tags: Aging Drugs Source Type: blogs

Peanut Butter And Arugula Sandwich For Health?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Or perhaps peanut butter and kale? The greens would protect against aflatoxin. LLNL researchers Graham Bench and Ken Turteltaub found that giving someone a small dose of chlorophyll (Chla) or chlorophyllin (CHL) found in green leafy vegetables such as spinach, broccoli and kale could reverse the effects of aflatoxin poisoning. Aflatoxin is a potent, naturally occurring carcinogenic mycotoxin that is associated with the growth of two types of mold: Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus. Food and food crops most prone to aflatoxin contamination include corn and corn products, cottonseed, peanuts and peanut pro...
Source: FuturePundit - January 26, 2010 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Randall Parker Tags: Aging Diet Cancer Studies Source Type: blogs

GSK and Sirtris: A Bit MoreEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Nature has a short item on the Pfizer paper that questions the reproducibility of some key sirtuin work (covered here and here). There are some good points to temper the pessimism. Leonard Guarente of MIT, a key pioneer in the field, says: ". . . that the latest findings are neither surprising nor worrisome. The compounds may work only with fluorophore-conjugated peptides in vitro, says Guarente, but the situation is different in cells and in animals. The Nature paper, among others, went beyond the test tube and indicated that SIRT1 was more active in cells and in animals after application of the Sirtris compounds. Furthe...
Source: In the Pipeline - January 25, 2010 Category: Chemists Tags: Aging and Lifespan Source Type: blogs

Low Carbo Diet Lowers Blood PressureEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
If you need to lose weight and lower your blood pressure read this: DURHAM, NC In a head-to-head comparison, two popular weight loss methods proved equally effective at helping participants lose significant amounts of weight. But, in a surprising twist, a low-carbohydrate diet proved better at lowering blood pressure than the weight-loss drug orlistat, according to researchers at Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Duke University Medical Center. Orlistat (aka Xenical or Alli) works by blocking fat absorption. So blocking fat absorption does not lower blood pressure as well as a low carb diet. Note that the orlistat die...
Source: FuturePundit - January 25, 2010 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Randall Parker Tags: Aging Diet Weight Studies Source Type: blogs

jenny pizer, lgbt pov: videocasting the prop 8 trial (2084)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Cut! Why did the Supreme Court ban videocasting of the Olson-Boies marriage trial? By Jenny Pizer, Marriage Project Director, Lambda Legal(on (left, pictured here with her wife Doreena Wong) January 14, 2010 Following the emergency appeal filed by the Prop 8 team, the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled 5-4 that the federal marriage trial may not be videocast for public viewing at other federal courthouses. The earlier plan to upload trial video to the court’s website already had been nixed by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ Chief Judge Kozinksi, who decided there are technical problems to be worked out before...
Source: aids-write.org - January 22, 2010 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: LA city AIDS coordinator's office McCAB McNC aging and HIV/AIDS aids & bubonic plague & 1918 flu americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids barak obama beingALIVE-la black msm gay hiv/aids black women with a Source Type: blogs

Blueberries Improve Elderly Brain Function?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Lab animal Eat those blueberries. Scientists are reporting the first evidence from human research that blueberries one of the richest sources of healthful antioxidants and other so-called phytochemicals improve memory. They said the study establishes a basis for comprehensive human clinical trials to determine whether blueberries really deserve their growing reputation as a memory enhancer. A report on the study appears in ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, a bi-weekly publication. Robert Krikorian and colleagues point out that previous studies in laboratory animals suggest that eating blueberries may h...
Source: FuturePundit - January 20, 2010 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Randall Parker Tags: Aging Diet Brain Studies Source Type: blogs

Gastric Bypass Benefit For Morbidly ObeseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
University of Cincinnati researchers found that gastric bypass surgery increases average life expectancy of the morbidly obese by 3 years. Researchers led by Daniel Schauer, an assistant professor of medicine at UC, found the surgery added three years to the life expectancy of the average morbidly obese gastric bypass patient - a 42-year-old woman with a body mass index (BMI) of 45. The benefits were greatest for younger patients. The efficacy of surgery in reducing mortality was less important for older men, the analysis also showed. A 75-year-man with a BMI of 35 could expect only a very slight gain in life span -- perha...
Source: FuturePundit - January 19, 2010 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Randall Parker Tags: Aging Weight Studies Source Type: blogs

Sirtuin ScenariosEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
So, after reading what Pfizer has to say about Sirtris (and by extension, about GlaxoSmithKline's heavy investment in them), let's go over the possibilities. What happened, and what's going on? We'll start out with the first branch point: either Pfizer (and Amgen) are right that there's trouble with the Sirtris assays and compounds (Reality A, I'll call it), or they're wrong (Reality B). For the rest of this piece, I'm going to assume that they're right, because I think that this is almost certainly the case. At least two separate groups of competent investigators have reported trouble, and that's good enough for me. (We'...
Source: In the Pipeline - January 15, 2010 Category: Chemists Tags: Aging and Lifespan Source Type: blogs

The Sirtris Compounds: Worthless? Really?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
As followers of the drug industry know, GlaxoSmithKline famously paid $720 million to buy Sirtris Pharmaceuticals in 2008. Sirtris is the most high-profile shop working on sirtuins and resveratrol-like pharmacology, which subject has received a massive amount of press (some accurate, some scrambled). I've been following the story with interest, since the literature has me convinced that the aging process can indeed be modified in a number of model organisms, which makes me think that it could be in humans as well. And I also feel sure that advances in this area could lead to many profound medical, social, and economic effe...
Source: In the Pipeline - January 12, 2010 Category: Chemists Tags: Aging and Lifespan Source Type: blogs

Television Watchers Die SoonerEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
TV kills. Study highlights: A study found that every hour spent in front of the television per day brings with it an 11 percent greater risk of premature death from all causes, and an 18 percent greater risk of dying from cardiovascular disease. The findings apply to both obese and overweight people as well as people with a healthy weight because prolonged periods of sitting have an unhealthy influence on blood sugar and blood fat levels. DALLAS, Jan. 11, 2010 Couch potatoes beware: every hour of television watched per day may increase the risk of dying earlier from cardiovascular disease, according to research reported...
Source: FuturePundit - January 12, 2010 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Randall Parker Tags: Aging Lifestyle Studies Source Type: blogs

Health Affairs Blog: Top 10 in 2009Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We offer readers the annual “top 10″ list of most-read posts from Health Affairs Blog. Health reform topped the list in 2009. If you missed any of these posts, here’s your chance to catch up on your reading. Propaganda And Prejudice Distort The Health Reform Debate by Merton Bernstein Nurse Shortage Eases Under Recession by Jane Hiebert-White The Policy Lessons Of Health Care Cost Variations: A Roundtable With Bob Berenson, Elliott Fisher, Bob Galvin, And Gail Wilensky by John Iglehart and Chris Fleming Indiana: Health Care Reform Amidst Colliding Values by Mitchell Roob and Seema Verma The Revised Senat...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - January 11, 2010 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jane Hiebert-White Tags: Aging All Categories Blog Cost Health Reform Nurses Payment Physicians Policy Politics Primary Care States Source Type: blogs

video post: kearns to LA city council announcing elder HIV/AIDS summit & new media training feb 12 (2083)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
chers— if this works, share my joy of this unhistoric moment of major insignificance, la la la namaste —rk after the jump [december 15, 2009] good morning president garcetti, distinguished council members. i have given the clerk copies of my prepared remarks. my name is richard kearns. i am a 58-year-old gay man living with AIDS in los angeles for more than 20 years, an angelino poet advocate. i am delighted to announce to you this morning that on friday, february 12th, 2010, upstairs in the tom bradley conference center, on the 27th floor, we will hold, the LA city grassroots elder HIV/AIDS advocacy summit &a...
Source: aids-write.org - January 11, 2010 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: 2010 hiv/aids summit & training 2-2010 HIV prevention justice alliance LA city AIDS coordinator's office McCAB McNC aging and HIV/AIDS ahf aids.org americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids awo call to action b Source Type: blogs

Exercise Helps With Mild Cognitive ImpairmentEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Folks with mild cognitive impairment are helped by exercise. Moderate physical activity performed in midlife or later appears to be associated with a reduced risk of mild cognitive impairment, whereas a six-month high-intensity aerobic exercise program may improve cognitive function in individuals who already have the condition, according to two reports in the January issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. The problem with this result is the (usually insurmountable) challenge of trying to get old folks to change their ways. Heck, try to get someone middle aged to take up regular exercise if they...
Source: FuturePundit - January 11, 2010 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Randall Parker Tags: Aging Exercise Studies Source Type: blogs

terry le grande, LA talkradio today (1-10-10): don duncan, richard eastman & scott imler (2082)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
chers— terry has just migrated to LA TalkRadio (channel 1), and his premiere show tonight features medical cannabis adevocates don duncan, scott imler and richard eastman. i’m not quite sure what next week’s topic will be. but i’ll be there on January 31st, talking about HIV/AIDS & aging and the upcoming summit/training february 12. Listen live @ http://www.latalkradio.com/Terry.php. namasté —rk Jan 10- This week’s topic is Medical Marijuana in Los Angeles. Guests include Don Duncan, from ASA (Americans for Safe Access), Rev. Scott Imler, the first person to open a collective in the LA area, an...
Source: aids-write.org - January 10, 2010 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: HIV prevention justice alliance LA city AIDS coordinator's office McCAB McNC aging and HIV/AIDS americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids beingALIVE-la black msm gay hiv/aids black women with aids champ citizen jou Source Type: blogs

The Secrets To Longevity Or How To Live To Be 100+Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Should you eat organic meat or tofu, should you run marathons? Watch this video how to become older than 100 years of age. Be prepared to be disappointed about how much you can influence this aging thing. Just enjoy yourself. To find the path to long life and health, Dan Buettner and team study the world’s “Blue Zones,” communities whose elders live with vim and vigor to record-setting age. At TEDxTC, he shares the 9 common diet and lifestyle habits that keep them spry past age 100. Related posts:I Hope They Had The Time of Their Live THE FRESH AIR FUND, an independent, not-for-profit agency, has... R...
Source: Dr Shock MD PhD - January 9, 2010 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Dr Shock Tags: Academic aging Elderly longevity Source Type: blogs

Health Affairs Examines Long-Term Services And SupportsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Congress is now debating whether to include in health reform a new program to help people pay for long-term care services and supports. At this propitious time, leading experts explore critical policy issues related to long-term care in a series of articles in the January 2010 edition of Health Affairs. (As of this issue, Health Affairs also moves from a bimonthly to a monthly publication in a substantially redesigned format.) The articles suggest that providing affordable, high-quality long-term care to the elderly and disabled continues to present formidable challenges to policymakers. This issue is funded by the SCAN Fo...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - January 5, 2010 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Chris Fleming Tags: Aging All Categories Chronic Care End-of-Life Care Health Reform Insurance Long-Term Care Workforce Source Type: blogs

Health Affairs Examines Long-Term Services And SupportEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Congress is now debating whether to include in health reform a new program to help people pay for long-term care services and supports. At this propitious time, leading experts explore critical policy issues related to long-term care in a series of articles in the January 2010 edition of Health Affairs. (As of this issue, Health Affairs also moves from a bimonthly to a monthly publication in a substantially redesigned format.) The articles suggest that providing affordable, high-quality long-term care to the elderly and disabled continues to present formidable challenges to policymakers. This issue is funded by the SCAN Fo...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - January 5, 2010 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Chris Fleming Tags: Aging All Categories Chronic Care End-of-Life Care Health Reform Insurance Long-Term Care Workforce Source Type: blogs

Pomegranate Cuts Breast Cancer Risk?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
An in vitro study suggests that pomegranate might reduce breast cancer risk by reducing estrogen production. Eating fruit, such as pomegranates, that contain anti-aromatase phytochemicals reduces the incidence of hormone-dependent breast cancer, according to results of a study published in the January issue of Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. Pomegranate is enriched in a series of compounds known as ellagitannins that, as shown in this study, appear to be responsible for the anti-proliferative effect of the pomegranate. "Phytochemicals suppress estrogen production that ...
Source: FuturePundit - January 5, 2010 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Randall Parker Tags: Aging Diet Cancer Studies Source Type: blogs

Superoxide Causes Muscle Atrophy With Age?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Blame shriveled muscles on free radicals. If you're an aging baby boomer hoping for a buffer physique, there's hope. A team of American scientists from Texas and Michigan have made a significant discovery about the cause of age-related muscle atrophy that could lead to new drugs to halt this natural process. This research, available online the FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org), shows that free radicals, such as reactive oxygen species, damage mitochondria in muscle cells, leading to cell death and muscle atrophy. Now that scientists understand the cause of age-related muscle loss, they can begin to develop new drugs to...
Source: FuturePundit - January 5, 2010 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Randall Parker Tags: Aging Mechanisms Source Type: blogs

Exercise Slows Telomere Decay?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Researchers in Germany find that endurance training slows the decay of the telomere caps on chromosomes, suggesting that exercise can slow the aging process. Researchers focused on telomeres, the protective caps on the chromosomes that keep a cell's DNA stable but shorten with age. They found telomeres shortened less quickly in key immune cells of athletes with a long history of endurance training. The study, by Saarland University, appears in the journal Circulation. A previous study found the converse: Sedentary Lifestyles Age Chromosome Telomeres Faster. Telomere length has been linked to rate of aging in many studies. ...
Source: FuturePundit - January 5, 2010 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Randall Parker Tags: Aging Exercise Studies Source Type: blogs

kearns: save the date (feb 12, 2010) for LA city grassroots elder HIV/AIDS advocacy summit & new media training (2081)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
text of flyer after jump SAVE THE DATE! LA City Grassroots Elder HIV/AIDS Advocacy SUMMIT & new media TRAINING February 12, 2010 Tom Bradley Center (26th & 27th floors) LA City Hall 200 N. Spring Street Los Angeles, CA 90012 hosted by - LA 11th district City Councilmember Bill Rosendahl - the City of LA AIDS Coordinator’s Office - richard kearns publisher of http://AIDS-write.org & http://havvacc.wordpress.com [seal of city of los angeles ) FOR MORE INFORMATION: contact rk@aids-write.org or call 310-488-1328 “new tricks for old dogs & their allies” (Source: aids-write.org)
Source: aids-write.org - January 2, 2010 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: HIV prevention justice alliance LA city AIDS coordinator's office McCAB McNC aging and HIV/AIDS ahf aids & bubonic plague & 1918 flu aids.org americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids awo call to action b Source Type: blogs

maeve maddox, dailywritingtips: global language monitor’s ten most often used words of 2009 (2080)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Step into the GLM Time Machine by Maeve Maddox january 1, 2010 The Global Language Monitor (GLM) is an Austin, Texas-based entity that documents, analyzes and tracks trends in language and publishes a list of the year’s most used English words, names, and phrases. According to GLM’s algorithm, 2009’s most used word, both online and in print, is Twitter. GLM’s top ten for 2009: Twitter Obama H1N1 stimulus vampire 2.0 (as a suffix attached to the next generation of everything. Ex. Web2.0) deficit Hadron healthcare transparency A look at the Words of the Year for 2000-2008 recalls the prominent events and personali...
Source: aids-write.org - January 1, 2010 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: HIV prevention justice alliance LA city AIDS coordinator's office aging and HIV/AIDS aids & bubonic plague & 1918 flu americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids beingALIVE-la black msm gay hiv/aids black women w Source Type: blogs

black AIDS institute’s LA CitySheet pdf: links for fighting HIV/AIDS in the community (2079)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
2009 AIDS IN BLACK AMERICA City Sheet Los Angeles, California chers— this is a comprehensive resource list. print out all four pages and stick it on the frig. add phone numbers and email addresses on your contact lists, both phone and internet. use them. local & state stuff. links to officials after the jump. namasté —rk The CitySheet Series This CitySheet is a resource intended to provide Black community stakeholders that want to get involved in stopping the disease with AIDS information and potential partners. These numbers represent real people in your community who are impacted by HIV and AIDS. These...
Source: aids-write.org - January 1, 2010 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: HIV prevention justice alliance LA city AIDS coordinator's office aging and HIV/AIDS ahf aids & bubonic plague & 1918 flu americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids black AIDS institute black msm gay hiv/aids Source Type: blogs

Jan. 5 Briefing on Long-Term Services and SupportsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The January 2010 edition of Health Affairs focuses on long-term services and supports and the challenges of ensuring affordable, high-quality care to people with disabilities, including many of the nation’s aged. The journal has invited key lawmakers and leading experts in aging and health policy to discuss the policies and new approaches needed to address these challenges at a January 5th Health Affairs briefing. WHEN: 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, January 5, 2010 WHERE: National Press Club [Metro Center] The Ballroom 529 14th St. NW, 13th Floor Washington, DC 20045 RSVP for this event online. Health Affairs will of...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - December 28, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jane Hiebert-White Tags: Aging All Categories Cost End-of-Life Care Politics Quality Source Type: blogs

Brain Fitness: Skip the Sudoku, Be a VolunteerEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Just-published research in the Journals of Gerontology: Medical Sciences shows that volunteering and similar social activities are helpful in staving off mental decline in later years, and can actually improve cognition. CommentsComments (Source: Neuromarketing)
Source: Neuromarketing - December 22, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Roger Dooley Tags: Brain Fitness Neuroscience Research aging cognition crossword puzzles gerontology johns hopkins neural plasticity neuroplasticity sudoku volunteering Source Type: blogs