New and Noteworthy

• Interviews Online!

  The Population Reference Bureau (PRB) has posted a series of interviews on aging and health:

  Linda Waite:

  Health Effect of Marriage and Other Social Relationships

  Waite is the Lucy Flower Professor in Urban Sociology, director of the Center on Aging at the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, and Principal Investigator of the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP).

  
  Samuel Preston

  The Effect of Smoking on Trends in U.S Mortality at Older Ages

  Preston is the Fredrick J. Warren professor of demography, Population Aging Research Center, at the University of Pennsylvania. In the 1970s, Preston produced a landmark study, "Older Male Mortality and Cigarette Smoking," on the effects of smoking on mortality patterns.

  Eileen Crimmins

  U.S. Adult Mortality and Health Trends in an International Context

  Crimmins is the Edna M. Jones Professor of Gerontology and Sociology. Demography of older populations, health and mortality. Director of Training, Multidisciplinary Research Training in Gerontology.

• Today's Research on Aging

  Today's Research on Aging is an e-newsletter series from the Population Reference Bureau intended to increase awareness of research results and their application to major public and private decisionmaking. Webcasts and e-newsletters based on research conducted at the NIA P30 Centers on the Demography of Aging can be found on the Today's Research on Aging page on the PRB website.

• PRB Discuss Online

  PRB Discuss Online is a feature of the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) website that gives you "live online" access to experts from PRB and elsewhere to answer your questions about noteworthy and newsworthy population, health, and environment topics, trends, and issues.

  June 24, 2009: Global Aging and Economic Development. Discussant: David Bloom, Chair, Department of Global Health and Population Harvard School of Public Health

• NIA Demography Centers - Publications

  The Center Publications Page contains Links to publications and other resources of NIA P30 Centers on the Demography of Aging.

• CCBAR Newsletter: April-May 2009

  The April-May 2009 newletter of the Chicago Core on Biomarkers in Population-Based Aging Research (CCBAR) is now available online. Backissues are also available on the website.

• Proceedings: Chicago Workshop on Biomarkers in Population-Based Health and Aging Research

  The proceedings of Chicago Workshop on Biomarkers in Population-Based Health and Aging Research, held June 8 & 9, 2006, are now available online.

  The Workshop was sponsored by the Chicago Center on Demography and Economics of Aging, with the generous assistance of the National Institutes of Health, grant 2P30AG012857.

• The Center on Aging's Biomarker's Core has it's own web site, CCBAR. Click http://biomarkers.uchicago.edu/

• Regarding submission of final manuscripts to PubMed Central (PMC) as requested under the NIH Public Access Policy: Effective May 2, 2005, PMC will provide a secure web site that will allow authors to log in, deposit, and manage final manuscripts. Please visit http://www.nihms.nih.gov/ to obtain the most up-to-date information on submission policies.