RV Industry Grows as Boomers Hit Highways

Yahoo! News: The recreational vehicle capital of the world is in the midst of a hiring boom. In the sprawling manufacturing plants south of Interstate 80-90 in Elkhart County, the scene resembles a bustling construction site, the sound of drills...

Healthcare Cost Weigh On California

San Jose Mercury News: From care delivered through the mammoth Medi-Cal program to grants that subsidize university research, the burden of health care is woven into nearly every page of California's $99 billion budget. Last year, the state's medical bill...

Keratoplasty: Surgical Fix for Near-Sightedness

New York Times: "I'm a little vain," Mr. Miller conceded. Though the new procedure, which uses radio waves to correct near-vision problems, had not yet been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for his problem, he had it done...

Robots Seen As Companions for Elderly

Yahoo! News: To some scientists, robots are the answer to caring for aging societies in Japan and other nations where the young are destined to be overwhelmed by a surging elderly population. In one of a budding series of robot-therapy...

Medicare Overseers Expect Soaring Costs

New York Times: Medicare's financial condition has significantly deteriorated, partly because of exploding health costs and partly because of the new Medicare law, the government reported on Tuesday. In its annual report to Congress, the Medicare board of trustees said...

He's Retired, She's Working, They're Not Happy

New York Times: Such tensions have altered the marital dynamic of retirement, as millions of women continue working after their husbands retire. The challenges represent "a stage of the marriage relationship that's occurring for the first time in history," said...

Is 'Good' Cholesterol Good?

New York Times: For years, doctors have been saying that to prevent heart disease, patients should pay attention to both the so-called bad cholesterol, or L.D.L., and the good cholesterol, or H.D.L. The good, they said, can counteract the bad....

Stem Cells May Cure Baldness

Yahoo! News: Research showing that bald mice can grow hair after being implanted with a type of stem cell could lead to a cure for baldness, a group of scientists says. The project marks the first time that "blank slate"...

Scientists Defy Menopause

Telegraph (UK): Scientists have discovered a new way to defy the menopause which could change women's lives, they announce today. Their research raises the prospect of extending childbearing years and offers a more natural alternative to HRT to offset ageing...

Baby Business Booms

Reuters: As toy retailers struggle with weak sales and aggressive price cuts, the baby segment -- which includes not just toys but strollers, car seats and cribs -- appears to be booming. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, is...

Expanding Life Expectancy in U.S.

Life in the Age of Old, Old Age In the annals of human longevity, the Blaylock sisters represent a happy aberration, an anomaly so rare that they have donated blood for the sake of genetic research. They have all sailed...

Over-50 Boomers Represent Untapped Market

Northwest Indiana News The over-50 crowd never has been a priority for most marketers. But the new wave of active, affluent baby boomers like Dickerson that's swelling the ranks of that age group is making them harder to ignore. Americans...

Boomers Bust Budget

San Francisco Chornicle: It's not so much the gaping $521 billion federal budget deficit forecast for 2004 by the Bush administration Monday that's got economists fretting about the nation's fiscal future. Nor is it the $2.4 trillion shortfall projected by...

Blueberries: Fastest Growing Fruit

EDP24 News (UK): They conjure up thoughts of America and mum's home-cooking. Now the humble blueberry, an unfamiliar sight on our market stalls, is making its mark in Britain as the new taste sensation. And Norfolk has the perfect opportunity...

Aging Baby Boomers Turn to Human Growth Hormone

San Francisco Chronicle: Amid recent revelations that elite athletes may be abusing human growth hormone to build muscles and break records, a large and flourishing practice on the fringe of American medicine has also been promoting its use among aging...

Breadmakers Feel Pain From Atkins Diet

Yahoo! News: Some bakers around the country are seeing a similar drop in business: With millions of people trying the diet created by the late low-carb guru Dr. Robert Atkins, overall bread sales are flat or down slightly, while bread-bashing...

'Liquid Drano' For Your Arteries

CNN.com: Intravenous doses of a synthetic component of "good" cholesterol reduced artery disease in just six weeks in a small study with startlingly big implications for treating the nation's No. 1 killer. "The concept is sort of liquid Drano for...

Enzymes Found to Delay Aging Process

Washington Post: Scientists have found for the first time a way to rev up a potent "anti-aging" enzyme in living cells, an advance they said could speed the development of drugs to extend human life span and prevent a wide...

Soaring Cosmetic Surgery: Women Cajoling Doctors to Get it Done

Scotland National Newspaper: Women are persuading doctors to perform cosmetic surgery on the national health service by exaggerating their unhappiness with their looks. Research has revealed that surgeons are being cajoled into offering patients thousands of pounds worth of treatment...

Aging Boomers Drive Demand For New Communities

The Day.com: Across Connecticut, aging baby boomers are driving up sales of homes that offer swimming pools, woodland hiking paths and golf courses. ...In the past five years, an estimated 30 so-called active-adult communities have been built in Connecticut and...

Worm Research Sheds Light On Aging Process

San Jose Mercury News by Lisa M. Krieger It's not the Fountain of Youth, but it is intriguing: a class of molecules that researchers have discovered prolongs life and prevents a debilitating age-related illness. These findings, announced by a team...