Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Bruce Willis has frontotemporal dementia. What is FTD?
Bruce Willis' family has announced that he has been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.
Feb 17, 2023
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News tagged with average life expectancy
HIV & AIDS
70% of Australians living with HIV report their health-related quality of life to be good
To coincide with World AIDS Day on December 1, a major national survey of Australians living with HIV has revealed more than 70% of people living with HIV report their health-related quality of life to be good.
Dec 2, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Older US adults with certain preexisting conditions often diagnosed with poor prognosis cancers
A recent analysis published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Societyfound that before older U.S. adults were diagnosed with poor prognosis cancers, many had preexisting conditions such as functional impairment, difficulty ...
Oct 19, 2022
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Health
Increasing equality in human health is a critical scientific issue for Sweden
Have a car. Don't be poor. Don't have a stressful job. Age, gender and socioeconomics are some of the factors that affect your risk of developing an illness and of dying prematurely. Sweden has set the goal of leveling out ...
Sep 23, 2022
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Cardiology
Hyperglycemia is the variable that most affects the number of deaths from heart attack
Several factors increase the risk of heart attack, such as high blood sugar (hyperglycemia), obesity, abnormal cholesterol levels, high blood pressure (hypertension), and smoking. A study conducted in Brazil and reported ...
Sep 19, 2022
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Health
You could live 9 years longer in Hawaii than in Mississippi, new data shows
Differences in lifestyles and other factors are linked to big gaps in life expectancy between residents of various U.S. states, 2020 data shows.
Aug 23, 2022
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Health
WHO Africa sees 10-year growth in healthy life expectancy
Africa recorded a ten-year growth in its healthy life expectancy from 2000 to 2019, the World Health Organization Africa office said Thursday, exceeding the global average and progress seen in any other region over the same ...
Aug 4, 2022
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Health
German life expectancy decreased during pandemic years
Average life expectancy in Germany dropped noticeably between 2019 and 2021, the national statistics office said Tuesday, a change that it attributed to unusually high numbers of deaths during the coronavirus pandemic.
Jul 26, 2022
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Diabetes
People married into long-lived families share lower risk of type II diabetes
What makes some people predisposed to live and remain healthy much longer than others? That some persons reach an exceptional age has been recorded throughout history. It's tempting to write down such outliers as only the ...
Apr 11, 2022
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Medications
With personalized medicine, a shelved cancer drug could get another shot
A study by Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center researchers published in today's print edition of Molecular Cancer Therapeutics shows that triplatin is effective against triple negative breast cancer, which ...
Feb 8, 2022
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