Sports and Fitness
Youthful Healing, Old Bodies: A Surprising Journey into Biotechnology
As we age, our healing process deteriorates until it is slow and incomplete in comparison with our younger selves. This decline is linked to the deterioration of the rest of our system with age; understanding how to slow, or even halt, its advance could have promising implications more »
Health and Fitness: Staying Active In All Seasons and Without Spending a Dime
Go4Life exercises are designed to be done safely at home without special equipment or clothing. There's a free book as well as an exercise DVD available. Workout to Go, a mini exercise guide, shows you how you can be active anytime, anywhere.
Staying Motivated to Stay Active Be Physically Active without Spending a Dime Have Fun! Be Active with your Dog!
These are just a few of the tips sheets that adults 50 and older can read on theGo4Life website. Go4Life tip sh… more »
Stroke Risk Factors Linked to Cognitive Problems
A new study found that high blood pressure and other known risk factors for stroke may also raise the risk of developing cognitive problems. Each 10-year increment in age doubled the risk of cognitive impairment. LVH increased the risk by about 30%. more »
CultureWatch: Jane Fonda and Red Grooms
In Jane Fonda; The Private Life of a Public Woman, Bosworth explores the ambivalences of Jane Fonda as artist, romantic, businesswoman, femme fatale, and partly finished intellectual. Red Grooms' Marlborough Gallery show, New York: 1976-2011, is a madcap collection of paintings, sculptures and walk-through "sculpto-pictoramas" depicting the high-life, low-life and in-between-life of the metropolis more »