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Judith D. Kasper, a highly regarded Johns Hopkins public health researcher, died of a heart attack Aug. 4 in her longtime Bolton Hill home. She was 72.

 E-Mail Exposure to air pollution, even over the course of just a few weeks, can impede mental performance, according to a new study led by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. However, these adverse effects were lessened in people taking nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) like aspirin. The study is among the first to explore short-term air pollution exposures and the use of NSAIDs to mitigate their effects. The results are published in the journal Na...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Diagnosis of frailty is based on three or more of five key clinical signs and symptoms: weakness, slow walking speed, low level of physical activity, fatigue or exhaustion, and unintentional... view more  Credit: Jennifer Fairman FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Physicians understand frailty as a dysregulation among multiple systems in the body that make it less resilient and unable to recover completely when faced with a physical challenge such as injury or illness. "Defining fra...

email article Enlarged fluid-filled spaces around cerebral small blood vessels were linked to cognitive decline, a prospective study of older adults showed. Severe perivascular space pathology in both the basal ganglia and the centrum semiovale, or in the centrum semiovale alone, was tied to a greater drop in global cognition over 4 years, reported Matthew Paradise, MBChB, MSc, of the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and co-authors. Large perivascular space dilation in ...

In the inaugural issue of the journal Nature Aging a research team led by aging expert Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH, dean of Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, synthesizes converging evidence that the aging-related pathophysiology underpinning the clinical presentation of phenotypic frailty (termed as "physical frailty" here) is a state of lower functioning due to severe dysregulation of the complex dynamics in our bodies that maintains health and resilience. When severity passes ...

According to new research in the journal Occupational & Environmental Medicine, people are likely to become more sedentary as they age, because retirement generally brings changes to daily routines and social interactions. No matter your age, it’s important to find an activity you love that you can do regularly and that you view as part of your everyday habits—like running. Despite plenty of alarm bells over the past few years about the risks of sedentary behavior, a new study suggests ma...