Here are some interesting directions in medicine that might be of interest. Lynn put me onto this set of articles from CNN.
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2014/04/health/the-cnn-10-healing-the-future/
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2014/04/health/the-cnn-10-healing-the-future/
Friends told us about the 60 Minutes program http://www.cbsnews.com/news/living-to-90-and-beyond/
focused on "The 90+ Study", a research project connected to the University of California - Irvine studying a group of people over 90 years old.
http://www.mind.uci.edu/research/90plus-study/
focused on "The 90+ Study", a research project connected to the University of California - Irvine studying a group of people over 90 years old.
http://www.mind.uci.edu/research/90plus-study/
Some of the study's major findings are:
Some of the major findings are:
- People who drank moderate amounts of alcohol or coffee lived longer than those who abstained.
- People who were overweight in their 70s lived longer than normal or underweight people did.
- Over 40% of people aged 90 and older suffer from dementia while almost 80% are disabled. Both are more common in women than men.
- About half of people with dementia over age 90 do not have sufficient neuropathology in their brain to explain their cognitive loss.
- People aged 90 and older with an APOE2 gene are less likely to have clinical Alzheimer's dementia, but are much more likely to have Alzheimer's neuropathology in their brains.
Finally, respect for and insight into traffic accidents, especially pedestrian-vehicle ones http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/04/nyregion/how-being-hit-by-a-vehicle-changed-times-colleagues-lives.html?smid=tw-share&_r=1&referrer=
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Bill
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