By JOE GRAESDON AND TERESA GRAEDON Special to The Times For the last 10 years, I have awakened three or four times a week between 2 and 4 a.m. with a migraine.  I read an article about people taking melatonin for jet lag and wondered if my headaches were due to a body clock problem. [...]

Laurie Barclay, MD Feb, 26, 2004—when combined with lifestyle modifications, low-dose recombinant human growth hormone (GH) reduced weight and fat mass while preserving lean body mass in obese patients, according to the result of randomized trial publishing in February issue of The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. There were no untoward effects on insulin [...]

With age comes a diminished capacity for cellular protein synthesis, a decline in immune function, an increase in fat mass, a loss of muscle mass and strength and a decrease in bone mineral density. Age-related disability is synonymous weakness, impaired mobility, balance, and poor endurance. In the very elderly it is called physical frailty and [...]

The most dramatic and rapidly occurring changes in the women around the age 50 is menopause. The level of cycling estradiol (E2) production during the reproductive years drops dramatically. Not long ago, the prevailing view was that menopause resulted from an exhaustion of ovarian follicles. An alternative perspective is that age-related changes in the central [...]

Edward Mills, Ping Wu, Dugald Seely, and Gordon Guyatt Department fo clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics and Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, On, Canada; London Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, London, UK; Division of Clinical Epidmiology, Canadian college of Naturopathic Medicine, Toronto, on; Division of Hematology/Oncology, Sick Children’s hospital. University of Toronto, To Canada. Correspondence [...]