“There’s a whole different set” of health risk factors for older drinkers, said Paul Sacco, a professor of social work at the ...

Tayma, 9, struggles with the most severe version of Epidermolysis Bullosa, a rare, agonizing disorder that causes skin to blister and crack ...

Canadian study reveals diabetic patients taking GLP-1 medications face twice the risk of eye problems, with longer exposure ...

How old are your organs? The answer might not match your chronological age — and a new analysis finds that an organ’s biological age might predict a person’s risk of diseases such as cancer ...

A study published 30 years ago is striking up new conversation about the potential connection between the common cold sore and Alzheimer’s disease. Published in The Lancet in 1997, researchers ...

Hannah Richardson is hopeful about her future and its endless possibilities. But the 24-year-old’s plans are clouded by an unthinkable reality—there is a 50% chance she will develop Alzheimer ...

I was concerned that I may experience a similar fate, having experienced some forgetfulness and chalking it up to old age. My wife and I had seen a television program about the Toronto Memory ...

Cardiovascular disease doesn’t just break hearts — it stops them. The nation’s top killer claimed 1 in 5 American deaths in 2022, but experts say a few smart moves could keep your name off ...

And because these common, chronic, age-related conditions — cancer, heart disease and neurodegenerative diseases — do take so long to fully manifest, Topol said we have time to intervene to ...

It can also help us to predict for which indication certain combinations are best positioned, ... “The way we have set up our system is to help us identify new combinations for age-related diseases, ...

For 7-year-old Emma, the rage is a symptom of Batten disease, the fatal, rare illness with which she was diagnosed at age 4. “But I have to take the book away.