If these walls had ears, they might tell a homeowner some interesting things. Like when water is dripping into an attic crawl space, or where an open window is letting hot air escape during winter.The walls do have ears, thanks to a device that

Civil engineers at the University of Washington and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Seattle office have taken a first look at how dams in the Columbia River basin, the nation's largest hydropower system, could be managed for a different say a new

Simply getting older is not the cause of mild memory lapses often called senior moments, says a new study by researchers at the Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center, in Chicago. The study, published in the Sept. 15 online issue of Neurology, the of a

Neurological researchers at Rush University Medical Center, in Chicago, claim to have found a "therapeutic target" that potentially could lead to a new way to prevent the progression of Alzheimer's disease.The target, called neutral (N-SMase), a

Home-based exercises followed by voluntary home training seem to be associated with long-term effects on balance and gait, or manner of walking, and may help protect high-risk, elderly women from hip fractures, says a report in the September issue

Personalized postcards or phone calls can be effective in encouraging more seniors to get their annual flu shots, a new review of evidence suggests. Professional facilitators also are successful at urging providers to perform a suite of preventive

January 2011 marks a significant milestone for the baby-boomer generation when its first members, born in 1946, begin the year in which they will celebrate their 65th birthdays. The boomers' transition into the years that traditionally denote of

Giving birth in an alternative setting within a hospital—like a bed-free birthing room or one designed to be "homelike"—is just as safe for healthy women as laboring in a traditional hospital bed, and women who use these rooms are nearly

With an estimated 85 percent of women experiencing hot flashes as they approach menopause, researchers are concentrating on finding effective treatments that don't include hormonal or other pharmaceutical therapies.Now, a new Baylor University a

It may be the last place you want to be judged on your looks, but in a court of law it pays to be attractive.A new Cornell University study has found that unattractive defendants are 22 percent more likely to be convicted, and tend to get hit an