SPERRYVILLE, Virginia - Doug Ward didn’t have a plan when he stopped working four years ago at age 72: “I was just going to retire.” And so, after 35 years as a physician in Washington, he settled ...

Experts explain how protein supports healthy aging—and why no single nutrient works alone.

A fast-aging fish is giving scientists a rare, accelerated look at how kidneys grow old—and how a common drug may slow that ...

A new study found that vitamin D supplementation improved a key marker of biological aging—but it's probably too soon to rush to the drugstore. Here's what to know.

Aging is no longer viewed only as an inevitable slide toward frailty, but as a biological process that can be measured, ...

A new study suggests that getting the shingles vaccine may be linked to slower biological aging in older adults, beyond its role in preventing infection. A shingles shot is best known for preventing a ...

Researchers have found that a natural aging-related molecule can repair key memory processes affected by Alzheimer’s disease.

Extreme heat may be silently accelerating biological aging in older adults, adding months to cells before disease appears.

A new study found that women in Finland who had a lot of kids—or none—aged faster than those with one or a few kids. But the findings don’t necessarily translate to today’s parents ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have characterized how cellular senescence—a biological process in ...

This population-based study of U.S. adults aged 70 and older found that shingles vaccination was associated with slower ...

Researchers at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), have found that a key ...