Longevity & Aging

Biological age & clocks

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

Oct 16, 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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Does caregiving shorten life? What studies since 1999 show about the health of family caregivers

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

Oct 9, 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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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

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

Sep 29, 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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Biological aging clocks diverged between women and men across 15 organ systems

Sep 23, 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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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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Tongue and interdental cleaning went with lower death rates in 9,676 older Japanese adults

Sep 21, 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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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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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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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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COPD patients left hospital without guideline inhalers in more than one in five cases

Sep 8, 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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An old antibiotic beat a newer drug at preventing COPD flare-ups, 17% fewer

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

Aug 26, 2026

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

Aug 26, 2026

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

Aug 17, 2026

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

Aug 14, 2026

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Plant protein tracked lower death rates, animal did not

Aug 8, 2026

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One in three healthy middle-aged adults was prefrail

Aug 6, 2026

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Habits predicted healthy aging; blood markers did not

Aug 6, 2026

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Resveratrol: uses, evidence, dosing and safety

Aug 6, 2026

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NMN and NR: uses, evidence, dosing and safety

Aug 5, 2026

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Younger generations are aging faster, and cancer tracks it

Aug 4, 2026

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Metformin added nothing to exercise in older adults

Aug 4, 2026

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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

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

Aug 2, 2026

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A missed melanoma cost patients 8.2 years of life on average

Aug 2, 2026

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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

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

Jul 31, 2026

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A blood metabolite clock tracked death risk and frailty

Jul 31, 2026

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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

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Gut bacteria tracked with frailty in 2,081 older women

Jul 26, 2026

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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

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Semaglutide slowed biological aging clocks in a small trial

Jul 17, 2026