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  • This fall protect yourself and your family: Get a flu shot
    October 14, 2005

    Each winter, millions of people suffer from the fever, aches, and pains caused by the flu, a highly contagious infection. A relatively mild disease in healthy young and middle-aged people, flu can be life threatening to older adults. In an average...

  • NIHSeniorHealth says: Talk to your doctor about dry mouth
    October 7, 2005

    If you’ve ever stood up to give an important presentation, opened your mouth to speak, and realized you cannot form words, you know what it feels like to have dry mouth. Occasional dry mouth—the feeling that there is not enough saliva in...

  • National stereotypes common, mistaken, study reports
    October 6, 2005

    Simplified stereotypes of "typical" Americans, Brazilians, Chinese, and other groups are common but highly mistaken, according to a National Institute on Aging (NIA) study that examined the accuracy of national character stereotypes in 49...

  • Loss of body mass linked to development of Alzheimer's disease, study finds
    September 26, 2005

    Loss of body mass over time appears to be strongly linked to older adults’ risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and the greater the loss the greater the chance of a person developing the disease, new research has found. The...

  • Gene discovery sheds light on causes of rare disease, cancer
    August 25, 2005

    National Institute on Aging (NIA) researchers have discovered a new gene, FANCM, which sheds light on an important pathway involved in the repair of damaged DNA. Specifically, mutation in this gene is responsible for one of the forms of Fanconi...

  • Information on stroke easily accessible at NIHSeniorHealth
    August 22, 2005

    Each year, more than 700,000 strokes occur in the United States, nearly three-quarters of them in people over age 65. Because the risk of stroke more than doubles each decade after age 55, it is especially important for older Americans to know...

  • NIHSeniorHealth adds information on smell and taste
    August 8, 2005

    Thirty percent of older Americans between the ages of 70 and 80 and two out of three older Americans over age 80 experience problems with their sense of smell. Problems with taste, although less common, also frequently occur in older adults. Now...

  • Earlier AD diagnosis creating demand for early-stage support groups
    July 1, 2005

    Many people are being diagnosed earlier in the course of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) because of improving sensitivity and specificity of diagnostic techniques and increased awareness of the disease. Health care professionals, the Alzheimer’...

  • Five vision topics added to NIHSeniorHealth web site
    June 20, 2005

    Eye diseases and conditions leading to vision loss increase significantly with age, and the number of people with vision loss is expected to rise as the population grows older. To help older adults learn more about these conditions and vision loss,...

  • Exercise slows development of Alzheimer's-like brain changes in mice, new study finds
    April 27, 2005

    Physical activity appears to inhibit Alzheimer’s-like brain changes in mice, slowing the development of a key feature of the disease, according to a new study. The research demonstrated that long-term physical activity enhanced the learning...

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