http://disabledadults.com Disabled Handicapped Network Elderly Senior Adult Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:03:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en HealthDay - THURSDAY, March 11 (HealthDay News) -- A knee replacement can help improve an elderly person's balance, according to a new study. http://disabledadults.com/disabled/new-knee-may-improve-balance-healthday/ Reuters - Several studies have shown that smokers have a lower risk of developing Parkinson's disease. A new study shows that it's how many years of smoking a person has under their belt -- rather than how much they smoke every day -- that matters. http://disabledadults.com/disabled/smoking-years-key-factor-in-lower-parkinsons-risk-reuters/ HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, March 10 (HealthDay News) -- In an effort to understand the relationship between tobacco smoke and Parkinson's disease, researchers have found that smoking for many years may reduce risk for the disease but smoking a large number of cigarettes a day does not seem to reduce risk. http://disabledadults.com/disabled/longtime-smokers-may-find-protection-from-parkinsons-healthday/ Time.com - Data suggest that men want sex more, have more sex and enjoy it more than women. That holds true even into their 70s. http://disabledadults.com/disabled/even-in-old-age-men-want-sex-more-than-women-timecom/ AFP - Men are more than twice as likely as women to be sexually active in old age but good health is the key for both to feeling naughty, says a study published Wednesday by the British Medical Journal. http://disabledadults.com/disabled/men-likelier-than-women-to-enjoy-sex-in-old-age-afp/ HealthDay - TUESDAY, March 9 (HealthDay News) -- Over 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's disease, and blacks and Hispanics are at highest risk of developing the disease, a new report finds. http://disabledadults.com/disabled/alzheimers-epidemic-hitting-minorities-hardest-healthday/ Reuters - People with Parkinson's disease face an increased risk of the most deadly type of skin cancer, new research confirms. http://disabledadults.com/disabled/melanoma-risk-higher-in-parkinsons-patients-reuters/ HealthDay - FRIDAY, March 5 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. researchers have discovered a new form of prion disease that doesn't act like related illnesses, such as mad cow disease, but instead causes brain damage similar to that produced by Alzheimer's disease. http://disabledadults.com/disabled/prion-disease-in-mice-may-help-advance-alzheimers-research-healthday/ HealthDay - TUESDAY, March 2 (HealthDay News) -- Elderly patients discharged from the hospital after a stay in the intensive care unit (ICU) have a high rate of death in the following three years, new research shows. http://disabledadults.com/disabled/death-after-discharge-rates-higher-in-elderly-icu-patients-healthday/ HealthDay - TUESDAY, March 2 (HealthDay News) -- The humble sea squirt may offer a new way to test drugs to treat Alzheimer's disease, U.S. researchers say. http://disabledadults.com/disabled/sea-squirt-helps-researchers-test-new-alzheimers-drug-healthday/