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...data support what other studies have been documenting in recent years - that although bariatric surgery, like any surgery, is invasive and risky, it's becoming safer. In 2004, a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that the risk of death from gastric bypass was 0.5% (the risk of dying within 90 days after a hip replacement is about 0.3%), and a government analysis revealed that complication rates, particularly infections, from bariatric surgery had declined 21% between...
Researchers are also finding that social activity may be linked to the same protective effect in people. A recent study of 2,500 adults ages 70 to 79, published in the journal Neurology, found that those who were able to stay mentally sharp were also those who exercised once a week or more, had at least a ninth-grade literacy level and were socially active. (Read "What Do Old People Know, Anyway...
...that has just come out in the last few years. It is one of the new horizons in health care and prevention," says neurologist and aging expert Dr. Joe Verghese of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, who published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2002 showing that changes in walking patterns could be an early sign of dementia...
Moms might want to hang on to those Mother's Day cards they got last month. There may not be much more familial goodwill forthcoming - at least not after kids get wind of a new study released by Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital and published in the online journal PloS One. Turns out that your mother's feelings for you may not be the unconditional things you always assumed. It's possible, researchers say, that the prettier you were when you were born, the more she loved...
...Peter L. Bernstein was 70 and had led a full life. An intelligence officer during World War II, he later taught economics, ran an investment firm and edited the wonky but influential Journal of Portfolio Management as a flood of new academic research transformed investing in the 1970s...