When we think about aging, we often imagine it as a uniform process—our entire body growing older in lockstep. But new research posits that aging doesn't work this way. Instead, our organs age at ...

A novel health-assessment tool uses eight metrics derived from a person's physical exam and routine lab tests to characterize biological age. It may be able to predict a person's risk of disability ...

A fascinating new study from Stanford Medicine has identified two critical ages when human aging processes significantly accelerate, potentially changing our understanding of how we approach health ...

Researchers have developed a new “body clock” tool that calculates people’s biological age — and could even predict the risk of disability or death. The tool, which comes from the University of ...

UW Medicine biology of aging researchers Daniel Raftery (left) and Shabnam Salimi worked on the Health Octo Tool to characterize people's biological ages and predict their risk of disability and death ...

The earlier the age a child received a smartphone the greater the health risk. Children who have smartphones by age 12 are at higher risk of lack of sleep, obesity and depression, according to a new ...

Jonathon Headrick is affiliated with Exercise & Sports Science Australia (ESSA). Joel Garrett does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would ...

It is well known that heat causes exhaustion in the body due to dehydration. But aging? A recent study concluded that extreme heat accelerates the aging of the human body, a worrying fact given the ...

Researchers have developed a new "body clock" tool that calculates people’s biological age — and could even predict the risk of disability or death. The tool, which comes from the University of ...