US life expectancy about to decline, researchers say
A team of researchers led by University of Illinois at Chicago professor S. Jay Olshansky is predicting a decline in life expectancy in the United States later this century. Th...Alzheimer's cognitive decline slowed
PET scans and cognitive tests have suggested that Alzheimer's disease patients with genetically modified tissue inserted directly into their brains show a reduction in the rate of cognitive decline and increased metabolic activity in the brain, according to a study published in the April 24, 2005 online issue of the journal Nature Medicine by researchers at the University of California, San Diego...Horseshoe crab decline threatens shorebird species
Each year, the red knot, a medium-sized shorebird, makes a 20,000-mile round-trip from the southern tip of Argentina to the Artic Circle ?one of the longest migrations of any bird. And each year from April to June, the red knot stops over in the Delaware Bay to feed on horseshoe crab eggs resulting from the largest spawning of horseshoe crabs found on the East Coast of the United States....Contaminants linked to sturgeon decline in Columbia river
White sturgeon populations in the Columbia River may be declining due to the presence of elevated amounts of foreign chemicals including DDT and polychlorinated biphenyls in their bodies, according to new studies by researchers at Oregon State University. The research by Carl Schreck and Grant Feist, biologists in OSU's College of Agricultural Sciences, has been published in the journals...HIV decline in Zimbabwe linked to behavioural change
An international research team believes that changes in behaviour among the population have accelerated the recent decline in HIV infection in Eastern Zimbabwe. Research published today in Science shows how there has been an almost 50 percent decline in HIV prevalence in some groups, which the researchers attribute to people delaying when they first have sex and having fewer casual partner...Mortgagebot builds online sales even as housing declines
In fact, the Mequon-based - which specializes in online transactions for first mortgages, mortgage refinances, home equity lines of credit, and other mortg...Software piracy declines in emerging markets
The BSA, an international association o...Fiserv makes over $1 billion, but profits decline
Net income was $116 million, down slightly from the $140 million the company made in the first quarter of 2005 on $973 million in revenues. Fiserve's activities in the first quarter inclu...Biotech flourishes in 2005 while Big Pharma is on the decline
Goodbye, 2005, and hello, 2006! I sit hear writing this article as I listen, appropriately, to a new Cream anthology album called "Cream Gold" (released in 2005 - not to be confused with the live Cream concerts held in 2005). Why Cream, you may ask? Well, the successful re-emergence of this supergroup in 2005 via a series of concerts held in London and NewYork's Mad...Midwest venture capital funding declines in first half of 2005
All of the VCs present were Midwest VCs that were actually funding deals....Poor health care in Russia maybe causing Decline in its Population
Medical officials in Russia have reported to have said that more than two-thirds of births in Russia are marred by complications, and every second newborn discharged from a maternity clinic is suffering health problems. The number of normal births declined from 45.3 percent in 1992 to just 30 percent last year, said Olga Frolova, head of the statistics department of Russia's Academy o...Quitting smoking stops lung decline
Quitting smoking for a year at a time can keep lungs from deteriorating and reduce the risk of death, according to American researchers. At the University of Ohahio, Dr.Margit Pelkon and collegues investigated the effects of quitting smoking. They studied more than 1,000 Finnish participants in four groups:// those who had never smoked, those who had quit permanently, those who had qui...Heart bypass-mental decline link
Tens of thousands of bypass patients suffer mental decline after bypass surgery, including difficulty thinking and remembering. One leading theory is that the heart-lung machine is the culprit. But according to a new study,// the loss of mental sharpness suffered by many heart-bypass patients several months after surgery may not be caused by the heart-lung machine used in the operating room after...Preventing mental decline in the aged
According to a new study, it has been found that there are ways to keep your mental abilities sharp as you age. Mental decline is not a specific part of life. The older population is growing rapidly and people// are typically living longer. The ability to know, think, learn and judge, known as cognitive ability, is essential to quality of life and survival in older ages. Researchers from the Ins...Hospitalization Rates for Coronary Artery Disease Decline in the U.S.
EVANSTON, Ill., March 20, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Treatment ofcoronary artery disease (CAD) appears to be shifting away from theinpatient setting, according to a study published today in TheAmerican Journal of Cardiology. U.S. hospitalization rates for heart attacks (acute myocardialinfarctions) declined 10.6 percent from 2002 to 2005, possibly dueto broader use of preventive treatmen...