Rapid advancements in medicine and falling fertility rates have contributed to the rise in the population of India’s older adults in recent decades. This demographic and epidemiological shift has a gendered impact: A higher proportion of women over the age of 60, compared to their male counterparts, suffer from Non-Communicable …
In this Review we delve into the underlying causes of health disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people and provide an Indigenous perspective to understanding these inequalities. We are able to present only a snapshot of the many research publications about Indigenous health. Our aim is to provide clinicians with a …
The Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment is entrusted with the welfare, social justice & empowerment of disadvantaged and marginalised section of the society viz, Scheduled Caste, Backward Classes, Persons with Disabilities, Aged Persons, and victims of Drug Abuse etc. Basic objective of the policies, programmes, law and institution of …
Climate change and an ageing population bring together two key policy challenges which need to be addressed to ensure a safe, secure, equitable and sustainable future. Growing old in the twenty-first century will bring with it the unique challenge of changing weather and climate and the impact this will have …
For better brain A team of scientists in the US has found that exercise has links to brain cell regeneration. The team first looked at the brains of exercising mice using magnetic resonance imaging to follow blood flow through the brain. On post mortem testing, they found that brain cell …
humans are more prone to cancer because of their body mass. However, nature has protected us somewhat from this risk by disallowing the secretion of an enzyme that rapidly heals damaged cells but promotes cancer. Telomerase, the enzyme which is not normally found in humans, is found in abundance in …
the secret of youth may be as close as a nearby farm or supermarket. There is reason to believe that eating blueberries slows down the ageing process after elderly rats showed considerable improvement in age-related features in a joint study by Tufts University in Boston and the us departent of …
all those lazy bones who till now found walking or an early morning jog a difficult proposition, now have something to get them going. A recent study by Arthur F Kramer of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, usa, showed that aerobic fitness can improve executive control functions of the …
There is reason to believe that Dolly, the cloned sheep, inherited some of the wear and tear suffered by her six-year-old mother's cells. The ends of Dolly's chromosomes are shorter than those of normal sheep of the same age, point out researchers at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh, Scotland. When …
IT IS simple. We age with time, grow old and finally die. Right? Wrong, say researchers. It is not so simple. Contrary to popular perception, ageing can vary from species to species. And latest research conducted on Mediterranean fruit flies (Ceratitis capitata) show that depending on the kind of nutrition …
ARMED forces medical services have started giving a lot of importance to geriatric medicine. Studies have revealed that a large number of patients admitted to military hospitals suffer from Alzheimer's disease and other neurocognitive disorders. By 2020, the number of patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease will double in India to …
IN AN exciting development, us researchers have discovered a "fountain of youth", albeit at a cellular level. The secret of everlasting youth, they say, is actually a DNA chain called telomerase. It is a cellular clock of sorts, winding down as the cells age. Its manipulation, say the researchers, can …
out of a total of 52.2 million deaths around the world in 1997, 17.3 million people died due to infectious and parasitic diseases and 15.3 million, due to circulatory diseases. Another 6.2 million people died due to cancer, 2.9 million due to respiratory diseases, mainly chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and …
some animals put on low-calorie diets have been found to increase their life span. If the method is confirmed in other animals, too, then it may become a reliable means of extending a mammal's life span. Experiments on monkeys whose body formations are similar to humans have shown encouraging results. …
rapid urbanisation and development pressures plague China today. Ironically, the pressure to increase farm productivity to meet the present and future food needs is threatening the future of arable areas in the northwest. Scientists believe that by the end of this year China could lose more than 2,000 sq km …
global population growth is slowing down contrary to the expectations of the propagators of demographic disaster, says a study published in the British science journal Nature . The study shows that the world's population will not double in the next century. Population will increase from 580 crore at present to …
An interlocking bed and wheelchair has been developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology which could help disabled or elderly people to move from bed to chair without help. The electrically-powered wheelchair is designed to be used with a horseshoe-shaped bed, forming a system called Rhombus. It can be docked …
By the end of the century, China will emerge as a society comprising aged people. The number of people aged 65 and above is rapidly increasing in China reflecting a change in the age structure of the population, according to a recent nationwide sample survey. The survey, based on one …
A common antibiotic may be as effective as oestrogen in preventing devastating bone loss caused by osteoporosis, suggests a new study conducted in the US. Minocycline, a derivative of tetracycline, not only appears to forestall bone loss but also develop bone density. The study, by C T Liang of the …
Ageing population will be a serious cause for concern in the coming century according to the World Health Organization (WHO). By 2020, the number of old people is set to nearly double to around one billion. WHO warned that, "If left unattended now, it may have far-reaching consequences for public …
werner's syndrome is a malignancy affecting only a small number of people, but shows devastating manifestations. The victims are cruelly wizened and grey by the time they reach their late 20's. They await their death from prematurely clogged arteries and heart malfunctions in their late 40s or 50s. The cause …
