News tagged with age restriction


FTC: Children still marketed violent content

Technology / Other

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The video game industry is doing a better job at keeping young kids away from violent and other inappropriate content than the music and movie businesses, according to a new report by the Federal Trade Commission.


Judge orders FDA to let 17-year-olds use Plan B (Update)

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration let politics cloud its judgment when it denied teenage girls over-the-counter access to the Plan B morning-after pill, a federal judge said Monday as he ordered the FDA to let 17-year-olds ...





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Key protein may explain the anti-aging and anti-cancer benefits of dietary restriction

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created May 22, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 3

A protein that plays a key role in tumor formation, oxygen metabolism and inflammation is involved in a pathway that extends lifespan by dietary restriction. The finding, which appears in the May 22, 2009 edition of the ...


Scientists find molecular trigger that helps prevent aging and disease

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine set out to address a question that has been challenging scientists for years: How do dietary restriction—and the reverse, overconsumption—produce protective effects against aging ...


'Anti-Atkins' low protein diet extends lifespan in flies

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Flies fed an "anti-Atkins" low protein diet live longer because their mitochondria function better. The research, done at the Buck Institute for Age Research, shows that the molecular mechanisms responsible for the lifespan ...


Mouse ovaries and testes age in unique ways

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created Jun 03, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Aging leads to large changes in gene activity in the ovaries of mice, but only limited changes in testes, according to research published in the open-access journal, BMC Biology. A lifespan-extending calorie-restricted diet ...


Calorie restriction does not appear to induce bone loss in overweight adults

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 22, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Young adults who follow a diet that is low in calories but nutritionally sound for six months appear to lose weight and fat without significant bone loss, according to a report in the September 22 issue of Archives of In ...


Looking for the Founatain of Youth? Cut your calories, research suggests

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 03, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (17) | comments 1

Want to slow the signs of aging and live longer? New Saint Louis University research suggests cutting back on calories could be a promising strategy.


Biologists link calorie restriction, endocrine function in worm longevity

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created Jun 18, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0

The link between calorie restriction and a longer, healthier life may lie in the head, not in the gut, MIT biologists report.


Survival mode that protects cells when oxygen is low also slows aging

Survival mode that protects cells when oxygen is low also slows aging (w/Video)

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

A biochemical pathway that helps keep cells alive when oxygen is low also plays a role in longevity and resistance against some diseases of old age, according to a report to be published April 16 in the journal ...


Agent in red wine found to keep hearts young

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created Jun 04, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (52) | comments 0

How, scientists wonder, do the French get away with a clean bill of heart health despite a diet loaded with saturated fats?


Red wine ingredient wards off effects of age on heart, bones, eyes and muscle

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 03, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 1

Large doses of a red wine ingredient can ward off many of the vagaries of aging in mice who begin taking it at midlife, according to a new report published online on July 3rd in Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication. Those ...



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