The average life expectancy of people diagnosed with dementia ranges from nine years at age 60 to 4.5 years at age 85 for ...

Dementia is a memory and independence robbing disorder where the brain progressively gets worse at functioning over time ...

Among the key findings, age at diagnosis emerged as the strongest predictor of survival time. For women diagnosed at age 60, ...

About 10 million people worldwide receive a diagnosis of dementia every year, but survival estimates vary widely ...

Women are less likely to receive a lung transplant and spend an average of six weeks longer on the waiting list, according to a study published today (Thursday) in ERJ Open Research.

However, among those who received a lung transplant, fewer women died overall during follow-up (34.4% vs 42.7%, P <0.001), ...

Predicting need for nursing home care remains complex For clinicians it is an important and demanding task to inform patients with dementia and their relatives about the prognosis. As with malignant ...

Medics have revealed how long a person can expect to live after being diagnosed with dementia. Survival rates range between ...

DEMENTIA is a devastating diagnosis, often described as robbing people of their ability to think, learn and remember. As ...

A long-term study of lung cancer in Israel released on Wednesday by the Health Ministry found that smoking — both active and passive — remains the primary risk factor. “The link between smoking and ...

Women, on average, live six years longer than men, which means six extra years of paying for life in retirement. Compounding ...