Researchers link supplement to reduced biomarkers of Alzheimer's in the brain

Researchers have determined that the naturally occurring dietary supplement, nicotinamide riboside (NR), can enter the brain. The finding is significant because it supports the idea that NR, upon reaching the brain, can alter the metabolism of relevant biological pathways involved in neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's.

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Turkish Soccer Stadium Stands as One to Rain Teddy Bears Down onto the Field for Earthquake Victims (LOOK and WATCH)

In a moment that will bring tears to your eyes and send your jaw to the floor, a packed Istanbul soccer stadium rained teddy bears down onto the field in donation and support for the children affected by the earthquakes. At exactly the 17th second of the 4th minute of the match, which corresponded to […]

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Study identifies four distinct pain trajectories in nursing home residents

Despite awareness that pain is common in nursing home residents, there has been minimal attention focused on how this pain changes over time. A new study presents compelling evidence of the existence of four distinct pain trajectories in this population. This new understanding of pain over time can help nursing home staff and clinicians better understand, recognize and respond to risk factors associated with persistent pain in individuals living in nursing homes. Ultimately, consideration of pain trajectories may alter courses of care and illness, prevent adverse outcomes and improve quality of life.

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Researchers use artificial intelligence to predict cardiovascular disease

Researchers may be able to predict cardiovascular disease -- such as arterial fibrillation and heart failure -- in patients by using artificial intelligence (AI) to examine the genes in their DNA, according to a new study.

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Students Raise More Than $270K So 80-Year-Old janitor Can Retire from Texas High School

High school seniors managed to secure a quarter-million dollars for their sweet, 80-year-old janitor who had to come out of retirement after his rent went up. The money was raised through a GoFundMe, which started out as a simple goal of $10,000, but quickly took on a goal of its own. Several seniors at Callisburg […]

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Woman Helped 100 Seniors Re-Home Their Pets Before Passing Away, Bringing ‘Peace of Mind’

A 28-year-old who helps the elderly to re-home their pets before passing away has celebrated her 100th adoption. Angela Rafuse was inspired to create her charity after her 85-year-old grandfather died, leaving his cat, Mackenzie, without a home. None of Angela’s relatives had capacity to take on the responsibility, so she decided to take in […]

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Man Who Didn’t Read or Write Until His Late Teens Becomes Cambridge University’s Youngest Black Professor

A boy with autism who could not read or write until his late teens is now the youngest-ever Black professor at Cambridge University 20 years later. As a child, Jason Arday was diagnosed with global developmental delay, which affecting his ability to learn how to talk and read. Speechless until age 11, therapists even predicted […]

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Digital markers near-perfect for predicting dementia in older drivers

Using ensemble learning techniques and longitudinal data from a large naturalistic driving study, researchers have developed a novel, interpretable and highly accurate algorithm for predicting mild cognitive impairment and dementia in older drivers. Digital markers refer to variables generated from data captured through recording devices in the real-world setting. These data could be processed to measure driving behavior, performance and tempo-spatial pattern in exceptional detail.

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For 3 Hours Doctors Continued CPR on Toddler with No Pulse–Until Life Returned

When 3-year-old Waylon Saunders arrived at the hospital, he was already legally dead and had been for a while. Found face-down in an icy backyard swimming pool, the Ontario toddler’s body temperature was so low that paramedics’ thermometers couldn’t get a reading, and he had no pulse. Nevertheless, a team at Charlotte Eleanor Englehart Hospital […]

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Decades-long suffering from obstetric injuries

Bowel leakage, the need for anal incontinence protection and a restricted social life may cause severe, decades-long suffering among women with obstetric injuries to the anal opening, according to a new study.

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French Football Star Scores First Goal Since Beating Cancer – And it was World Cancer Day!

February 4th, World Cancer Day at Signal Iduna Park in Dortmund, Germany: it’s a day French-Ivorian striker Sébastien Haller will always remember. Last summer, Haller was diagnosed with testicular cancer just weeks after signing a long-term contract to play for the second-biggest team in Germany, Borussia Dortmund. It was a difficult, scary period for the […]

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Senior With No Car Walks to Work–But After She Found $15k and Returned it She Does Now

Strangers around the country are rewarding a Michigan woman for her honesty after turning in nearly $15,000 cash to the police that she found at a gas station. It turned out to be the contributions of guests to a pair of newlyweds, who were more than overwhelmed by her integrity. 65-year-old Dianne Gordon has been […]

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North America’s Only Native Stork Poised to Fly off the Endangered Species List

After teetering on the edge of extinction almost 50 years ago, the wood stork is now widespread across the southeastern US, and is preparing a flight off the Endangered Species List (ESL). It’s all in a day’s work for the ESL, the world’s most successful conservation program in history, and the only stork native to […]

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Third Case of HIV Being Cured Confirmed 10 Years After Treament of the “Düsseldorf Patient”

The “Düsseldorf Patient”, a man now aged 53, is just the third person worldwide to have been completely cured of HIV via stem cell transplantation. As in the case of the other two patients, the so-called “Berlin Patient” and “London Patient,” the transplantation was undertaken to treat an acute blood disease, which had developed in […]

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Adults 70 and Older Swear by These Activities to Keep Them Younger Than Their Age – ‘Stereotypes No Longer Apply’

Three-quarters of people who reached 70 years or older agreed in a new poll that the ‘old age stereotypes’ no longer apply to today’s seniors. In fact, 72 percent of this group feel “years younger” than their actual age and are far more active than they imagined they would be. The survey of 1,000 people […]

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You Can Bring Joy to Children’s Hospital By Building a Snowman to Match the Drawings by Patients

A unique project that brings joy to a Colorado children’s hospital is back this winter—and the best thing about it are the strangers who pull on their boots so they can “Say Hi with a Snowman”. For the third year in a row, kids who are stuck in Children’s Hospital Colorado can draw their version […]

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Michael Jordan Donates $10 Million to Make-A-Wish for his 60th Birthday, Setting a Record

Hir Royal Airness himself celebrated his 60th birthday today with the largest donation to the Make-a-Wish Foundation in history. The $10 million fortune will go to “create an endowment to provide the funds needed to make future wishes possible for kids with critical illnesses,” the foundation explained in a release. Witnessing the strength and resilience […]

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Wife of WWII Soldier Spent Decades on Husband’s Wish to Reunite Japanese Family With Photo Album He Found on Okinawa

With persistence, belief, and the amount of sheer dumb luck normally needed to win the lottery, a Portland senior tracked down a Japanese family based on the photos left behind in an album her late husband plucked from the shrapnel-strewn beaches of Okinawa in 1945. Strangers, friends of friends, and non-English speakers all pitched in […]

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India Connects ‘Mega Milestone’ of 80 Million Rural Households to the Water Supply in Just 4 Years

India’s Jal Jeevan Mission of tap water access continues to be one of the great, unsung stories of human development. Almost 79 million households have been provided with access to a tap water connection since the program’s launch in August 2019, bringing the total to 111 million, or 56% of rural households in the nation. […]

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76-year-old Student Finally Graduates 50 Years After He Began His Ph.D. in Philosophy

Newly-graduated ‘Doctor’ Nick Axten said it took him “a long hard think” to get his doctoral dissertation in order, which is probably what most Ph.D. candidates would say. Unlike most candidates however, it took Dr. Axten 5 decades before the 76-year-old student finally graduated with a Ph.D. in mathematical sociology at the University of Bristol. […]

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23-Year-Old Rows Solo 3,000 Miles Across Atlantic Setting Race Record for Female

A 23-year-old woman just set the Talisker Challenge record for the fastest solo row across the Atlantic. Departing from the Canary Islands on the 10th of December, Mariam Payne rowed 59 days, 16 hours, and 36 minutes, before arriving in Antigua last Friday. The extraordinary feat was accomplished to raise money for the east Yorkshire […]

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An Army of 10,000 Women Saved India’s Rarest Stork – While Giving Each Other a New identity

Changing attitudes towards conservation in the Indian state of Assam have these women wearing paper-mache hats to support one of the world’s most endangered storks. Once reviled for their foul smell, carrion-filled diet, and unhandsome appearance, the greater adjutant has become a welcomed member of communities where it was once killed as a pest thanks […]

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Previously unknown cell mechanism could help counter cancer and aging

In a new study, researchers discovered an unknown mechanism of how cells 'remember' their identity when they divide -- the cells' so-called epigenetic memory.

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Preemie Given 10% Chance of Survival Defies the Odds and is Now ‘a Genius’ Who Outsmarts His Teachers (WATCH)

Jamie Mohr who was given a 10 percent chance of survival when he was born weighing just 1lb 8oz has defied the odds—and now is a genius prodigy at age 4. Jamie’s mom was told her placenta stopped working at 20-weeks and the baby was no longer getting the nutrients to grow. Doctors warned Lorraine […]

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‘Miss Patty’ Has Made 7,000 Hats for the Students that Ride Her Bus

Many employees of school systems leave behind important memories with their students, but for bus driver Patty Reitz, she principally leaves behind a memory of friendship, and warm ears. Known as Miss Patty, the Clarence Central School District bus driver has crocheted 7,083 hats over three decades of service for the students and the school. […]

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The Fascinating Story of How a Brilliant Woman Who Mapped the Secrets of the Ocean Floor, Upending Scientific Thought

As massive a project as it would see to be now, once upon a time humanity needed to formulate the theory of plate tectonics. That’s where perhaps the most influential cartographer of the 20th century, and of all human history besides, Marie Tharp came into the picture: hand-combining the hard data collected by colleagues into […]

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Calorie restriction slows pace of aging in healthy adults

In a first of its kind randomized controlled trial an international team of researchers shows that caloric restriction can slow the pace of aging in healthy adults. The CALERIE™ intervention slowed pace of aging measured from participants' blood DNA methylation using the algorithm DunedinPACE (Pace of Aging, Computed from the Epigenome). The intervention effect on DunedinPACE represented a 2-3 percent slowing in the pace of aging, which in other studies translates to a 10-15 percent reduction in mortality risk, an effect similar to a smoking cessation intervention.

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Equipment Manager Finally Gets to Play–Watch a Boy’s Basketball Triumph as High School Cheers

Equipment manager Carson Watters loves basketball, loves working on his junior varsity high school team, but never imagined he would ever get to play in a game. The Philip Simmons HS freshman has worked hard all year, said his coaches, and deserved to show what he could do on the court. “Seeing him go in […]

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Telomeres, mitochondria, and inflammation oh my! Three hallmarks of aging work together to prevent cancer

Scientists have discovered that when telomeres become very short, they communicate with mitochondria, the cell's powerhouses. This communication triggers a complex set of signaling pathways and initiates an inflammatory response that destroys cells that could otherwise become cancerous. The findings could lead to new ways of preventing and treating cancer as well as designing better interventions to offset the harmful consequences of aging.

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Study reveals that much still not known about cognitive decline

The risk factors linked to cognitive decline in older adults explain a surprisingly modest amount about the large variation in mental abilities between older people, according to a new national study.

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5-Year-old Who Emptied Piggybank for Earthquake Relief Now Wins $48Mil Lottery Jackpot at 18

A delightful story from northern Ontario saw a 5-year-old girl’s good Karma wait 13 years to reward her. Juliette Lamour won the state’s second-largest lottery jackpot in history, CAD$48 million, on her first-ever try. Local news from her home city of Sault Saint Marie revealed a touching side of the story—that at 5 years old […]

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Study finds new association between social isolation and dementia risk factors

Researchers used data on more than half a million people in the UK and Canada to discover a link between social capital and indicators of Alzheimer's disease-related dementia.

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Ocean Cleanup Nonprofit Gets $25 Million From Airbnb Co-Founder as they Prepare to Launch Massive Cleanup System

  The co-founder of Airbnb.org has just donated $25 million to support the Dutch nonprofit The Ocean Cleanup as they prepare to assemble and deploy the largest plastic capture system ever developed for use in the ocean. The Ocean Cleanup’s pilot-scale ocean cleaning system, System 002, has been deployed in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch […]

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Will revitalizing old blood slow aging?

Young blood may be an elixir for older bodies, rejuvenating aging hearts, muscles, and brains. But how can old blood become young again? Stem cell scientists may have found a way.

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Man Finally Meets Family That Hid Him During Nazi Holocaust 80 Years Ago–And Visits the House

An elderly Belgian man was able to meet the descendants of a neighbor who saved him from the Holocaust after his perseverant son and a helpful geneticist managed to track down his grandchildren. The meeting was organized in the same house where a 5-year-old David Rossler was hidden along with his mother. Now 85, Rossler […]

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Stockton Man Builds Solar-Powered Trike with Stuff in His Garage—And it’s Catching On

No gas is no problem for one Stockton CA inventor who created a solar-powered tricycle that’s really catching on. Milton Butler’s invention uses two batteries and a small electric motor gathered up in a normal plastic storage bin to power three bicycle wheels and is allowing his family to save money on $5.00 per-gallon gasoline. […]

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Does lifetime exposure to estrogen affect risk of stroke?

People with a higher cumulative estrogen exposure throughout their life may have a lower risk of stroke, according to a new study. The lower risk was found for both ischemic stroke and intracerebral hemorrhage.

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