Amid an ongoing opioid crisis that contributes to shortening American lifespans, a new study addresses the lack of nationwide data on who keeps the lifesaving medication with them and uses it to reverse overdoses.
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Radio Health Journal featured an interview with Valter Longo on the potential benefits of fasting and fasting-mimicking diets when used in coordination with cancer treatments. The syndicated segment was shared widely across U.S. radio stations.
New York Times Well quoted Susan Enguidanos in an article on what to do if one receives a scary diagnosis. She recommended that patients research their condition only with reputable, doctor-reviewed sources, such as the Mayo Clinic health library. She also advises patients to record the appointment with their doctor on the phone: “Then you can listen back when you’re not in crisis.”
WBZ NewsRadio’s NightSide with Dan Rea interviewed Berenice Benayoun on the possible biological reasons why women live longer than men on average. “We know that in controlled conditions, being male is a detriment to a long lifespan.”
CBS News, New York Post others covered a study by Eunyoung Choi and Jennifer Ailshire discussing how living with extreme heat can accelerate the rate of aging. The study also received international media coverage in outlets such as ScienceNet.cn, Tencent News, Sohu, The Paper, Netease, PTI, India Today, Economic Times and others.
New York Times featured a study by Eunyoung Choi and Jennifer Ailshire on how more days of excessive heat correlates with increased biological aging in older adults. The widely covered study appeared in ABC News, New Scientist, New York Post, The Verge, Nature, ABC News (Australia), Mirror, The Sun, Talker, Parade, Chosun (South Korea), Bioengineer.org, and The Conversation.
People in neighborhoods that experience more days of high heat show faster aging at the molecular level than residents of cooler regions, say USC researchers.
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New York Post featured a study coauthored by Andrei Irimia on how the Tsimané community, who live a pre-industrial lifestyle in the Bolivian Amazon, have the “healthiest hearts on the planet” and brains that age far more slowly than their Western counterparts. This may be due in part to an extremely active lifestyle as well as a high-fiber diet full of vegetables, fish and lean meats, the researchers noted. “This ideal set of conditions for disease prevention prompts us to consider whether our industrialized lifestyles increase our risk of disease,” Irimia said.
New York Times quoted Bérénice Benayoun of USC Leonard Davis School in a story discussing how women outlive men by a significant margin, with a life expectancy of around 80 years compared to 75 years for men in the U.S. “There’s decent data showing that, at least before menopause, the female immune system tends to be better, more on it and better able to mount responses. … [males] tend to do much worse in response to infection.”
BBC Science Focus covered a study by Andrei Irimia, which developed a method using MRI scans and artificial intelligence (AI) to track how quickly the brain ages, a critical step in predicting and potentially preventing conditions like dementia.
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