Medications
Novel injection repairs severe spinal cord injuries in mice
A brighter future could be in store for people with a spinal cord injury if new animal research pans out in humans.
Apr 14, 2022
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News tagged with life expectancies
Neuroscience
C/EBPβ/AEP pathway dictates both Alzheimer's disease and longevity: Study
Cognitive decline during normal aging is exacerbated in neurodegenerative disease including Alzheimer's disease (AD). While it is not yet known exactly what causes AD, there are a number of risk factors that make a person ...
Mar 31, 2022
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Health
Changing your diet could add up to a decade to life expectancy, study finds
A young adult in the U.S. could add more than a decade to their life expectancy by changing their diet from a typical Western diet to an optimized diet that includes more legumes, whole grains and nuts, and less red and processed ...
Feb 8, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Lockdowns during early pandemic saved lives, but not a go-to strategy moving forward: study
The U.S. pandemic lockdown in 2020 caused a $2.3 trillion economic downturn and split the nation politically, and now some European nations are locking down again as Omicron surges through the global population.
Jan 21, 2022
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Medications
Alcohol dependence: Psilocybin reduces relapses
Current research results uncover the unknown potential of psilocybin to restore molecular circuits in the brain and thus contribute to a reduction of relapses in alcohol dependence. This could lead to new therapeutic approaches.
Nov 23, 2021
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Health
Life expectancy gap between Black and white Americans has closed nearly 50% in 30 years, study finds
Persistent gaps in life expectancy between Black and white Americans have been highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, this gap has narrowed by nearly 50% in three decades, largely due to improvements among Black Americans, ...
Sep 28, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New metric shows COVID cut average lifespan by nearly a decade in parts of US
At its peak, COVID-19 drastically reduced the average human lifespan—by as much as nine years in one U.S. state—according to a new longevity metric developed at UCLA.
Aug 6, 2021
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Health
Americans with higher net worth at midlife tend to live longer
One of the keys to a long life may lie in your net worth.
Jul 23, 2021
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Is aging a disease? Treating it like one could be worth trillions, study says
We're living longer, but not necessarily better. As the population over 65 in the United States is projected to double by 2060—with one in five residents in retirement age—so will the number of Americans needing long-term ...
Jul 19, 2021
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Pandemic drives largest decrease in US life expectancy since 1943
U.S. life expectancy decreased by 1.87 years between 2018 and 2020, a drop not seen since World War II, according to new research from Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Colorado Boulder and the Urban Institute.
Jun 23, 2021
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