A youthful reminder

Lifestyle and youthful looks.

BACKGROUND Lifestyle has been proven to have a dramatic effect on the risk of age-related diseases. The association of lifestyle and facial ageing has been less well studied. OBJECTIVES To identify lifestyle factors that associate with perceived facial age in white north European men and women. METHODS Lifestyle, facial wrinkling and perceived facial age were studied in two cross-sectional ...

A systematic review on reminder systems in physical therapy

Background: The main goal of physical therapy is to help the patient gain a better health status. Several studies have investigated the use of reminders to prevent such failures on the patients’ side. This article presents a systematic review of the literature concerning reminders in physical therapy. Methods: Databases were searched until May 2017 and literatures were found from April 1...

Fibulin-5 for youthful skin

Fibul in-5 for youthful skin A loss of tissue elasticity leads to wrinkles and more serious age-related problems, such as emphysema and vascular defects. On page 1061, Hirai et al. report that youthful elastic fi bers are assembled by an extracellular matrix protein that slips away with age. Mice that lack this matrix protein, called fi bulin-5, have loose, wrinkled skin, vascular abnormalities...

Our Profession Needs a Reminder

Prevention of Youthful Marijuana Use.

Considerable money and effort have been expended in attempts to prevent drug use by youth, with disappointing results. Too often, prevention programs have singled out youth with simplistic messages of exaggerated risk and the same politically acceptable solution for all-abstinence. Historically, prevention efforts have been less effective by not being soundly based in science and failing also t...