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 ...

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 ...

New Delhi: Young adults in India are increasingly developing high blood pressure, a condition once considered more prevalent ...

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 ...

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 ...