Chronic diseases - once considered the ailments of old age - are increasingly striking younger people. Nearly half of new colorectal cancer cases in the U.S. now occur in adults under 65, the American ...

Scientists have determined that nobody, not even a centenarian, dies of old age. The traditional view is that ‘old age’ is a cause of death; that as a person gets older, their systems gradually ...

Reaching the age of 100 does not necessarily mean a life fraught with illness. A new study from Karolinska Institutet shows that centenarians not only live longer, they also stay healthier than other ...

Ageing comes with all the paradoxes and contradictions humans often do not think about as young people. Everybody wants to grow old but many do not often think about the challenges that come with ...

For many years heart disease was viewed mainly as a disease of old age. Today that picture is changing. According to a large ...

A review article now published in Nature Reviews Genetics brings together evolutionary theory, comparative genomics and large-scale human genetics to explain why we age and why aging rates differ ...

The new research, published in the journal Nature Genetics, uncovered an accelerated aging syndrome in humans – Heyn-Sproul-Jackson syndrome (HESJAS) – in which these marks occur at the same locations ...

Nutrition, disease, accidents, physical activity and labor—many of the things that humans do or experience leave traces in our skeletons. Even thousands of years after death, these traces can provide ...