A novel health-assessment tool uses eight metrics derived from a person's physical exam and routine lab tests to characterize biological age.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

One of the Women’s Health Initiative’s biggest yields is its vast repository of health data collected annually from tens of thousands of women over more than 30 years. The dat ...

The director of the landmark PBS documentary tells AARP things are getting better for the 50-plus, but society still has a ...

A major new effort at Weill Cornell Medicine seeks to catalog the normal human virome, the immense ecosystem of viruses that lives in and on us.

Shadow Scottish secretary Andrew Bowie described high immigration north of the border as a “pyramid scheme response” to an aging population, as working-age migrants become old themselves “and ...

and whilst nations across the developed world are faced with the myriad of issues an aging population presents, the Scottish National Party should be more focused on support for working families ...