Topic

Longevity & Aging

The biology and measurement of aging: biological age, epigenetic clocks, healthspan, the medicines older people take, and what circumstance does to how long health lasts.

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Longer opioid courses and gabapentin for back pain tied to twice the opioid addiction risk in Medicaid study

Oct 21, 2026

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Frozen embryo transfer linked to twice the childhood cancer rate in 1.1 million Danish children

Oct 21, 2026

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Worse hearing loss tracked with higher death rates in 64,000 adults across four countries

Oct 21, 2026

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Light-to-moderate drinking tied to more colorectal cancer in Koreans, more so with high blood sugar

Oct 20, 2026

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Over-the-counter hearing aids worked better for older adults with a doctor's or audiologist's help

Oct 19, 2026

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Lichen planus linked to more mouth and genital cancers, but 20-year oral cavity cancer risk stayed near 1%

Oct 19, 2026

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Long COVID linked to 14% higher risk of new high blood pressure in Stockholm adults

Oct 16, 2026

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Menopause tracked with abrupt shifts across body systems in 300 million lab tests from a million women

Oct 16, 2026

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Postnatal depression linked to later heart, kidney and diabetes diagnoses in a study of 1.4 million women

Oct 16, 2026

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Later generations of Europeans over 50 had more physical and mental capacity, with ever smaller gains

Oct 16, 2026

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Bed bugs: what their bites do and do not do, why they came back and what getting rid of them involves

Oct 14, 2026

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Bunions: what they are, who gets them, what shoes and splints can and cannot do and what surgery involves

Oct 14, 2026

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After low-risk chest pain, peer-supported online therapy eased anxiety a little more than a doctor referral

Oct 14, 2026

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US child death rates fell 89% since 1935 but have been higher than peer nations' since 1975, study finds

Oct 14, 2026

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Lung nodules: what a spot on a lung scan means, how often it is cancer and how doctors decide what to do

Oct 14, 2026

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Google's AI chatbot took medical histories from 98 real patients with no safety stops in a first clinic study

Oct 12, 2026

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Doxy-PEP: how the antibiotic taken after sex works, who US guidance covers and why resistance is a worry

Oct 12, 2026

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Hormone therapy is first choice for hot flashes in a new US guideline built on a review of 90 trials

Oct 12, 2026

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The PSA test: what it measures, what screening trials show and why one result is not a diagnosis

Oct 12, 2026

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Shigella: what the gut infection is, how it spreads and what the CDC found about drug-resistant strains

Oct 12, 2026

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A potent prescription-only steroid was found, unlabeled, in 6 of 18 skin products bought from online retailers

Oct 12, 2026

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Tick-borne meat allergy linked to allergic reactions when type O patients get type B plasma or platelets

Oct 12, 2026

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First trial backs blood thinners for atrial fibrillation with one stroke risk factor, on just 17 events

Oct 9, 2026

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Ablation for atrial fibrillation did not clearly beat a sham on quality of life in a 262-patient trial

Oct 9, 2026

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Tighter blood pressure control cut cardiovascular events with or without kidney disease in 27 trials

Oct 9, 2026

An older woman and man sit at a round table with a blood pressure monitor between them, the man's forearm resting on the tabletop.

Blood pressure readings explained: how arm position, cuff size and other errors can shift the numbers

Oct 9, 2026

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Lifestyle and health factors accounted for 84% of men's excess cancer rate in Shanghai but 26% in the UK

Oct 9, 2026

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Does caregiving shorten life? What studies since 1999 show about the health of family caregivers

Oct 9, 2026

Gloved hands rest on a white table beside a vaccine vial and a filled syringe, with a person in dark blue scrubs behind.

A reported cancer survival link to COVID vaccines looked small and brief in 95,015 French patients

Oct 9, 2026

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An AI system found 90% of esophageal cancers on routine chest CT scans but just 52.5% of precancerous lesions

Oct 9, 2026

A person in a white top sits on the edge of a bed holding a glass of water and a strip of tablets, face out of frame.

Menopause hormone tablets were linked to more blood clots in a Danish study; patches and gels were not

Oct 9, 2026

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HPV vaccination before pregnancy was linked to slightly lower odds of preterm birth in 624,713 Swedish births

Oct 9, 2026

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Kidney transplant's survival edge over dialysis narrowed for older patients given higher-risk donor organs

Oct 9, 2026

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Long COVID fatigue trial retracted and republished: fluvoxamine result intact, side-effect figures revised

Oct 9, 2026

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Low-intensity UV still damaged skin DNA in a lab study of 58 people: what low-level sun exposure does

Oct 9, 2026

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Plague explained: how it spreads, how it is treated and why a death in Siberia put it back in the news

Oct 9, 2026

A woman holding a small child sits at a clinic desk, speaking through a clear screen with a staff member in navy scrubs.

Postpartum navigators missed the main goal of a 405-person trial but nearly doubled primary care follow-up

Oct 9, 2026

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Five-session prostate radiotherapy eased bowel side effects, but relapse on blood tests was more common

Oct 9, 2026

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Cash rewards with free medicines doubled six-month quit rates, to 8.8%, in smokers sent for lung screening

Oct 9, 2026

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Uterine fibroids explained: who gets them, what symptoms they cause and what trials show about treatment

Oct 9, 2026

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Wildfire smoke was linked to shorter survival in lung cancer, more so per microgram than other air pollution

Oct 9, 2026

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Bundibugyo Ebola explained: the rare virus behind Congo's outbreak, and why no vaccine is approved for it

Oct 6, 2026

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Chickenpox vaccine and shingles: cases are falling in young adults and rising from age 35

Oct 6, 2026

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Early-onset cancer explained: which cancers are rising in adults under 50, and what is known about why

Oct 6, 2026

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Flu, COVID and RSV vaccines: what the evidence shows on protection and risks as the 2026-27 season begins

Oct 6, 2026

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Infections accounted for about 1 in 8 new cancers worldwide in 2024, an estimated 2.3 million cases

Oct 6, 2026

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Measles explained: how it spreads, what complications it causes and how well two vaccine doses protect

Oct 6, 2026

A woman sits bent forward on a treatment table while a therapist presses a hand against her lower back.

Women report more pain than men at all 11 body sites in a study of 6.1 million people in 118 countries

Oct 6, 2026

An older man in a white T-shirt sits at a table with a blood pressure cuff on his upper arm while an older woman beside him reads the monitor.

Nearly 6 in 10 adults with high blood pressure in a study of 1.4 million in England had never been diagnosed

Oct 6, 2026

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Vaping among people who never smoked: what the evidence shows on addiction, health and later smoking

Oct 6, 2026

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Loneliness and isolation tied to up to 5.8 fewer years free of depression or anxiety in 277,489 adults

Oct 4, 2026

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Wealth gap in aging: the poorest 60-year-olds in England walked as slowly as the richest 75-year-olds

Oct 4, 2026

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Why women live longer than men: the gap held through famines, epidemics and slavery in seven populations

Oct 4, 2026

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Childhood disadvantage was linked to higher adult death rates in a review of 102 studies, 8.5 million people

Oct 1, 2026

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Traffic noise and heart health: how much risk rises with road, rail and aircraft noise, and why

Oct 1, 2026

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Cash gifts to low-income mothers slowed a DNA marker of aging pace in their young children

Sep 29, 2026

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Heat and pregnancy: risks of early birth and other problems rose from about 31 C, a review finds

Sep 29, 2026

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Microplastics turned up in 77% of lung samples from 2024 autopsies, against 19% from 1991

Sep 29, 2026

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Are saunas good for your heart? What the research shows

Sep 29, 2026

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Is sunscreen safe, and does it prevent skin cancer? What the evidence shows

Sep 29, 2026

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Air pollution and rheumatoid arthritis: fine particles tied to more flares in 1,070 patients

Sep 26, 2026

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Coronary calcium score: what it measures, what it means and what guidelines say

Sep 26, 2026

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At-home stool test screening tied to 43% fewer bowel cancer deaths in 376,511 Swedes

Sep 26, 2026

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Tadalafil (Cialis) for urinary symptoms tied to 22% higher glaucoma risk in men

Sep 26, 2026

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Broken heart syndrome or heart attack? A blood test score sorted most patients before angiography

Sep 26, 2026

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Engineered immune cells improved rheumatoid arthritis in all six patients in a first safety trial

Sep 23, 2026

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No cervical cancer deaths in vaccinated 20-to-24-year-olds in England, against 23 expected

Sep 23, 2026

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A blood marker of long-term inflammation went with 43% higher heart risk, in UK Biobank data

Sep 23, 2026

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A blood test for many cancers found about a third of them, in an NHS trial of 142,250 people

Sep 23, 2026

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Biological aging clocks diverged between women and men across 15 organ systems

Sep 23, 2026

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Waiting five years instead of three for a follow-up colonoscopy was just as safe, in a 10,799-person trial

Sep 22, 2026

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Chlorination byproducts in Swedish tap water tracked with kidney cancer in men, in 58,664 adults over 25 years

Sep 22, 2026

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Two weeks of heart monitoring after unexplained fainting did not cut repeat faints, in a 2,234-patient trial

Sep 22, 2026

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Screening 25,431 children found inherited high cholesterol in about 1 in 163, more than long thought

Sep 22, 2026

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Incense, oil diffusers and candles sent indoor particle pollution soaring, in 112 London homes

Sep 22, 2026

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Blood pressure read slightly lower on extreme heat days, across 4.2 million US clinic visits

Sep 22, 2026

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High lipoprotein(a) raised heart risk as much after 70 as before, in 103,341 Danes aged 20 to 100

Sep 22, 2026

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Nicotine pouches helped smokers cut down whether or not flavors were allowed, in a 400-person trial

Sep 22, 2026

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Where more babies got the RSV antibody shot, fewer came to emergency rooms, across 12 European countries

Sep 22, 2026

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An immune-training capsule did not prevent wheezing in toddlers at risk of asthma, in an 822-child trial

Sep 22, 2026

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PFOA exposure tracked with deaths from brain cancer in a 32,254-person Ohio Valley cohort followed to 2021

Sep 22, 2026

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Silent artery plaque turned up in 57% of 16,808 adults with no heart disease, and in some in their 20s

Sep 22, 2026

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Statins in healthy over-70s cut heart attacks and strokes by 30% but did not extend disability-free life

Sep 22, 2026

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Regular exercise went with fewer new cases of bladder leakage after 50, in 11,126 adults in three countries

Sep 22, 2026

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Working more than 52 hours a week tracked with more tooth decay across 1.1 million check-ups

Sep 21, 2026

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Tongue and interdental cleaning went with lower death rates in 9,676 older Japanese adults

Sep 21, 2026

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Semen quality in 8,320 Danish men held steady across 26 years, with a small recent rise

Sep 21, 2026

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One SARS-CoV-2 protein turned lung immune cells into helpers for the virus, in cells and mice

Sep 20, 2026

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Y chromosome loss deepened the closer tissue sat to a tumor, across 1,000 samples from 405 men

Sep 20, 2026

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Reading the trend in old blood tests helped spot cancer after unexplained weight loss, for some tests

Sep 18, 2026

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An inherited gene variant raised lung cancer risk more than smoking did, in 3.3 million people

Sep 18, 2026

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Aging hearts lose their drainage vessels, and in mice that loss helped drive inflammation

Sep 17, 2026

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A gene variant linked to long life kept brain blood vessel support cells healthier in mice and lab cells

Sep 17, 2026

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Long-lived bats carry genetic changes that may link their resistance to cancer and to viruses

Sep 17, 2026

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Air pollution rose by about a quarter in cities after US embassies stopped publishing air-quality readings

Sep 17, 2026

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Some epigenetic aging clocks respond to treatment far more than others, a pooled analysis of 51 studies finds

Sep 17, 2026

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Specialists guessing the gene behind an eye disease did far better with an AI looking too

Sep 16, 2026

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A two-armed antibody cleared more HER2-positive breast tumors before surgery than standard treatment

Sep 16, 2026

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Long COVID fatigue improved across a whole trial, while whole-body MRI and app rehab added nothing

Sep 16, 2026

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A daily pill beat placebo for hidradenitis suppurativa across two trials of 619 patients

Sep 16, 2026

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Semaglutide started late in life extended lifespan in female mice and matched calorie restriction

Sep 16, 2026

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Hemoglobin just over the anemia cutoff linked to more deaths in half a million UK adults

Sep 14, 2026

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Blood mutations that accumulate with age tracked faster progression to advanced heart and kidney disease

Sep 8, 2026

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Cardiology professionals were less likely than the public to take recommended blood pressure drugs

Sep 8, 2026

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Nurse-led heart failure care cut deaths by 22% across 22 centers in India

Sep 8, 2026

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COPD patients left hospital without guideline inhalers in more than one in five cases

Sep 8, 2026

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Hospital takeovers cut heart attack deaths in Germany while leaving stroke deaths unchanged

Sep 8, 2026

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Preventive womb removal cost quality of life only in women who had not reached menopause

Sep 7, 2026

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Reminders raised lung screening follow-up from 47% to 76%; the education arm made it slightly worse

Sep 7, 2026

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Lung damage found by accident on a scan tracked 54% higher death risk

Sep 6, 2026

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Antihistamines helped eczema too little for patients to notice, across 47 trials

Sep 4, 2026

An older man holding an inhaler toward the camera

An old antibiotic beat a newer drug at preventing COPD flare-ups, 17% fewer

Sep 4, 2026

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Children with the most early infections had about 60% more eczema, not less

Sep 4, 2026

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Two hearing aids beat one in the first trial to test it, by a margin the authors won't call meaningful

Sep 4, 2026

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One protein at 12 weeks stood out from 2,904 as a signal of later preeclampsia

Sep 4, 2026

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Ten conditions clustered before an osteoarthritis diagnosis; only three reliably followed it

Sep 2, 2026

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4 in 10 people with confirmed celiac disease had no symptoms at all, across 394,274 people

Sep 1, 2026

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A second AI-guided look at the right colon found precancerous growths in 8.5% more patients

Aug 31, 2026

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Sending prostate cancer patients to a heart specialist won the trial on cholesterol, not on heart attacks

Aug 31, 2026

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Getting the steroid as an injection rather than a tablet halved the odds of still taking it a year later

Aug 31, 2026

An elderly woman being pushed in a wheelchair along a bright care home corridor

The high-dose flu shot cut flu hospital admissions by 31% in French care homes, average age 88

Aug 30, 2026

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Special spectacle lenses cut children's myopia progression by 71% over two years in a US trial

Aug 30, 2026

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London's clean air zone restored children's lung growth, and four years later the deficit was gone

Aug 28, 2026

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A phone app lifted tuberculosis cure rates from 74% to 82% in a randomized trial

Aug 28, 2026

An overhead view of a clinician holding a pill bottle and pen over a clipboard, across a desk from an older patient's hands

Frail kidney patients had triple the odds of cognitive impairment across 129,868 people

Aug 26, 2026

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Redesigning meals raised older adults' protein intake by 12 grams a day, and counseling did the work

Aug 26, 2026

Four older women sitting round a white table with books, coffee cups and reading glasses, mid-conversation

Social participation tracked 22% lower death risk in older adults across 25 cohort studies

Aug 26, 2026

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Social prescribing navigators beat a referral line, 50% to 36%, in 326 Ontario patients

Aug 18, 2026

An older person's hands filling a weekly pill organizer beside loose tablets and blister packs

Pharmacist deprescribing cut 2.5 drugs per patient, but six-month totals held steady

Aug 17, 2026

An extreme close-up of an older person's eye, hazel iris surrounded by lined skin

High-dose statins tracked less macular degeneration

Aug 17, 2026

A woman at a desk by a window resting her head in both hands, laptop and papers in front of her

Unresolved long COVID tracked leaving work in England

Aug 16, 2026

An older man in a dark coat walking with a cane along a park path, other people behind him

Physical and mental decline began years before a first fall, not after it

Aug 14, 2026

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Early menopause plus high blood pressure raised heart risk

Aug 9, 2026

An overhead arrangement of small bowls and measuring spoons holding beans, lentils, grains, seeds and walnuts

Plant protein tracked lower death rates, animal did not

Aug 8, 2026

A middle-aged woman in a coat walking past shopfronts

One in three healthy middle-aged adults was prefrail

Aug 6, 2026

An older woman talking with a companion over coffee among green plants

Habits predicted healthy aging; blood markers did not

Aug 6, 2026

Bunches of dark red grapes hanging on the vine among green leaves

Resveratrol: uses, evidence, dosing and safety

Aug 6, 2026

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NMN and NR: uses, evidence, dosing and safety

Aug 5, 2026

An older man sitting alone at a table by a bright window

Younger generations are aging faster, and cancer tracks it

Aug 4, 2026

A person's legs in running shoes climbing a flight of stone steps

Metformin added nothing to exercise in older adults

Aug 4, 2026

A black and white close-up of an elderly hand resting on a chair arm

Fix everything but DNA damage and you get 156 years

Aug 3, 2026

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Rationed sugar in infancy tracked younger biological age

Aug 3, 2026

A white tablet bottle on its side with round white pills spilling onto blue

Daily aspirin did nothing for healthspan in 19,114 older adults

Aug 2, 2026

A clinician examining moles on the back of an older patient

A missed melanoma cost patients 8.2 years of life on average

Aug 2, 2026

An older woman wearing headphones and looking at a phone screen

Hearing loss tracked frailty, but not in hearing aid users

Aug 1, 2026

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Smoking and waist size beat every epigenetic clock tested

Jul 31, 2026

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Longevity genes helped. Not smoking helped far more.

Jul 31, 2026

A woman in her forties looking away, lit against a dark green background

US women reach menopause at 50. One in 10 gets there early.

Jul 31, 2026

A scientist working at a laboratory bench lined with instruments

A blood metabolite clock tracked death risk and frailty

Jul 31, 2026

An older couple in a bright kitchen with pears, oranges and lemons on the counter

Following the official diet advice tracked with a firmer grip

Jul 29, 2026

A woman looking out through a window in daylight, city street behind the glass

Social disadvantage tracked with three fewer reproductive years

Jul 29, 2026

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Ergothioneine topped 991 blood markers of brain health

Jul 27, 2026

An older woman walking along a park path with a walking pole

Gut bacteria tracked with frailty in 2,081 older women

Jul 26, 2026

A gloved scientist pipetting a red sample into a rack of test tubes

Proteomic aging clocks didn't beat lifestyle questions

Jul 26, 2026

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Sleep and exercise curbed mutant blood stem cells

Jul 25, 2026

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Organ age clocks: a blood test for 40 cell types

Jul 23, 2026

A semaglutide injection pen resting on a surface

Semaglutide slowed biological aging clocks in a small trial

Jul 17, 2026