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BOSTON — Harvard Medical School- affiliated Hebrew SeniorLife (HSL), a nonprofit organization committed to improving the lives of older adults, announced today the launch of a pilot program for...

BOSTON – Hebrew Rehabilitation Center has been named one of the “Top 100 women-led businesses in Massachusetts for 2016” by The Commonwealth Institute. Headed by President Mary Moscato, Hebrew...

BOSTON – A team of delirium experts led by Sharon K. Inouye, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Aging Brain Center at the Institute for Aging Research...

BOSTON — Why do some people lead a perfectly healthy lifestyle yet still die young? A new international study suggests that the answer lies in our DNA. UCLA geneticist Steve Horvath led a team of 65...

Congratulations to Amanda Lorbergs, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Hebrew SeniorLife’s Institute for Aging Research for receiving the 2016 American Society for Bone Mineral Research (ASBMR) Young...

BOSTON — Researchers from the Harvard Medical School - affiliated Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research (IFAR) along with several other institutions have found evidence that smoking leaves a...

BOSTON — Susan Mitchell, MD, MPH of Needham Massachusetts was recently presented with the 2016 UCLA David H. Solomon award. The award was named in honor of the former chair of medicine at University...

BOSTON – With half of all women and a quarter of all men over fifty expected to suffer a fracture in the years ahead, the number of such injuries exceeds the incidence of heart attack, stroke, and...

BOSTON — The proportion of nursing home residents with advanced dementia and eating dependency who received feeding tubes decreased by approximately 50% between 2000 and 2014 according to a new study...

BOSTON — Researchers from the Harvard Medical School-affiliated Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research (IFAR), in collaboration with scientists from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center...