Medical oncology is a type of medicine that focuses on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cancer. A medical oncologist’s job is to take care of cancer patients by using things like ...

A five-year-old today has an extremely good chance of living to 90 and beyond. To cope, we need an economic and cultural revolution aimed at changing how we age ...

Melton, now a distinguished research fellow at Vertex Pharmaceuticals and the Catalyst Professor in the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard ...

Saturday's Grade 2, $1 million Twinspires.com Louisiana Derby at Fair Grounds racetrack in New Orleans, La., drew a fairly strong field of 10 vying for significant money, and points, on the ...

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The interest in longevity and anti-aging, even among relatively young people, will not wane. More and more folks are turning their focus to diets, exercise and of course, supplements in an effort ...

For decades, scientists have been on the hunt for an antiaging drug. Now, some say we may have already found it. A fast-growing body of research signals potential health benefits of GLP-1s ...

Understanding the link between aging and neurodegenerative diseases: insights into risks, research, and emerging therapies. Study: Antiageing strategy for neurodegenerative diseases: from ...

For this study, researchers analyzed neuroimaging data of more than 19,000 people from four datasets, including the U.K. Biobank and Mayo Clinic Study of Aging ... study told Medical News Today.

"Aging is a complex phenomenon that we're just starting to unravel," says Hrvatin, who is also an assistant professor of biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Although the full ...

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