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1 week ago | 
aarp.org | Kimberly Goad
Researchers are one step closer to using stem cells to help people with Parkinson’s disease. After decades of effort to manipulate these specialized cells to become dopamine-producing cells in the brain, two studies, published today in the journal Nature, show early, promising results. In both studies, researchers enlisted a small number patients with Parkinson’s to determine the safety of stem cell therapy derived from human embryonic stem cells.
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2 weeks ago | 
aarp.org | Kimberly Goad
AARP Staff Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Muscle loss is like death and taxes: Pretty much inevitable. Beginning around age 30, we all begin to lose muscle mass and — depending on overall health and level of activity — will continue to lose 3 to 8 percent per decade.
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2 months ago | 
aarp.org | Kimberly Goad
Photo Collage: AARP; (Source: Getty Images (2)) Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Not long after Carla Romagnano moved to Idaho to make a fresh start following a difficult divorce, she got a call from her parents back in Chicago: Romagnano’s mother had taken a nasty fall and broken her thigh bone.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
aarp.org | Kimberly Goad
Photo Collage: AARP; (Source: Getty Images (2)) Facebook Twitter LinkedIn One of Michelle Adessa’s patients was a couple of years into retirement when he noticed a change in his voice.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
aarp.org | Kimberly Goad
Elena Lacey (Getty 1) Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Until not so long ago, people with eating disorders fit a pretty specific stereotype: thin, white, weight-obsessed females who were — and this part is key — young. In fact, research shows that until the 1980s, age figured prominently in the diagnosis of anorexia nervosa, one of the most common eating disorders.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
aarp.org | Kimberly Goad
Rob Dobi Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Shannon Dowler, a family physician who specializes in treating people with sexually transmitted infections (STIs), began noticing a change in her practice back in 2017. “The average age of my patients was suddenly very different,” says Dowler, M.D., who is based in North Carolina and is the author of Never Too Late: Your Guide to Safer Sex After 60.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
aarp.org | Kimberly Goad
Sam Island Facebook Twitter LinkedIn There’s a reason the Mediterranean diet often snags a top spot on the “best diets” lists. Research shows that people who follow the eating plan — which favors fresh foods over processed — tend to live not just long lives, but long, healthy lives. The proof is in their telomeres.
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Sep 29, 2024 | 
aarp.org | Kimberly Goad
Photo Collage: AARP (Source: Getty Images(4)) Facebook Twitter LinkedIn A renowned group of researchers has just handed us two more ways to reduce our risk for dementia. If we can take those actions, and chip away at a dozen other risk factors, a substantial number of dementia cases could be delayed or prevented. Those risk factors are associated with up to half of all dementia cases.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
aarp.org | Kimberly Goad
Getty Images Facebook Twitter LinkedIn The aging process is a slow and steady march that begins pretty much from the moment you’re born but doesn’t become apparent until you reach your golden years — right? Actually, no.
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May 23, 2024 | 
times-herald.com | Kimberly Goad
You wouldn’t knowingly exceed the dosage on a pain reliever. But if you regularly reach for a common analgesic to treat any one of a number of ailments — whether it’s arthritis or back pain, the flu or seasonal allergies — you might inadvertently be doing just that. Acetaminophen (a.k.a. Tylenol) isn’t merely a standalone remedy for, say, the occasional headache, back pain or muscle aches; it’s also commonly included in medications that treat the above health woes and others.
