Sleeping pills are rarely the answer. Simple self-help steps and, if necessary, treatment by a sleep specialist can often remedy insomnia. In a National Institute on Aging study of more than 12,000 people aged 65 and older, over half of the men and women reported frequent trouble with sleeping. This finding confirms what you’ve already observed: with aging, it becomes harder to get to sleep and to stay asleep.
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According to the Census Bureau’s Public Information Office the baby boomer generation was born between 1946 and 1964, and is now turning 60 years old. To this baby boomers life still holds plenty of promise of “forever young”. It is estimated that in the USA there are 78.2 million of baby boomers, including presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton. This is a big percentage of the total US population of 298 million. On a daily basis, the number of people turning 60 each day in 2006 is 7,918 according to government census office projections.
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A 66-year-old woman has given birth in Romania after undergoing fertility treatments. A 63-year-old woman in California lied about her age and underwent in-vetro fertilization to get pregnant. She just delivered a healthy baby girl.
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Infertility is failure to achieve pregnancy within 12 months of trying. Those who have never been pregnant have primary infertility. Those couples who once were pregnant and now fail to get pregnant are said to have secondary infertility. One in six couples will seek help for infertility. Fortunately recent advances are able to help a large number of women.
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For women with glaucoma, pregnancy usually has no effect on their eye condition, but in some cases it does. Glaucoma is characterized by increased pressure within the eyeball, which can lead to vision loss or even blindness if it’s left untreated.
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Exposure to all kinds of tobacco, such as smoking it, chewing it and bubble pipes significantly raise a person’s chances of having a heart attack, say researchers from McMaster University, Ontario, Canada.
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Researchers from the University of Cincinnati (UC) and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) have found that young women with asthma are twice as likely to have symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea–a condition that often goes undetected in women–compared with those who do not have asthma.
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When a woman gets a mastectomy for breast cancer, her age shouldn’t single-handedly rule out breast reconstruction — even after age 60, researchers say in a new study. The study comes from Cameron Bowman, MD, and colleagues at Vancouver, Canada’s University of British Columbia. It was published in the July issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
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An estimated 148,000 Americans will be diagnosed with colon cancer in 2006. Having a close relative with colon cancer or an adenoma (noncancerous growth) clearly marks you as someone who needs to be extra watchful. Lack of family history, however, is no reprieve. Seventy-five percent of colon cancer patients seem to have no inherited risk.
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Elderly drivers may be the butt of jokes and a source of anxiety to their children, but new research shows that the very act of driving on that short trip to the grocery store may help keep them out of a nursing home.
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