Medical research: Treat ageing

Cohort profile: the Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (CFAS).

Global ageing is a recent phenomenon. Its potential impact on social and economic aspects of more affluent countries highlighted ageing as a sufficiently important issue towards which to direct resources. Discussion between the Department of Health, Medical Research Council, and experts from the scientific and medical communities resulted in the decision that brain changes, most particularly co...

Problems of Ageing: Biological and Medical Aspects

Simple techniques to treat medical phobias.

Participant modelling, a behaviourally-orientated treatment technique, is an effect method of treating phobias associated with minor medical procedures or apparatus such as needles or intravenous catheters. The steps in this technique are described and two cases of severe needle phobias successfully treated with participant modelling are presented to illustrate further its application.

Research Synopses: Public Health and Healthy Ageing

The Public Health and Healthy Ageing Research Group of the HKU Faculty of Dentistry is committed to protecting and improving oral health for all people by performing and synthesising clinical, community-level, and educational research, and by applying public health sciences. Below is a selection of summaries of research findings published by the Public Health and Healthy Ageing Research Group, ...

Hallmarks of telomeres in ageing research.

Telomeres are repetitive DNA sequences at the ends of linear chromosomes. Telomerase, a cellular reverse transcriptase, helps maintain telomere length in human stem cells, reproductive cells and cancer cells by adding TTAGGG repeats onto the telomeres. However, most normal human cells do not express telomerase and thus each time a cell divides some telomeric sequences are lost. When telomeres i...