The list of age-related diseases is long and miserable, and as people get ever older, these tend to stack up. The average 80-year-old has four conditions; some have many more.

She sees anti-aging medicine as a last resort but says understanding someone’s biological age can help determine how to treat age-related conditions. Take, for instance, a 70-year-old man with ...

The list of diseases humankind has managed to defeat is impressive – polio, typhoid, measles, tetanus, yellow fever, smallpox, diphtheria and chicken pox have been almost completely eliminated ...

It may soon be possible to vaccinate ourselves against the diseases of old age, keeping our body and brain healthier for longer. By Graham Lawton. 3 July 2024 ...

The black race is particularly vulnerable to various old age diseases. However, managing old age seemed easier in the past when communities were together and bonding was more effective.

T he NHS has been urged to accelerate the rollout of weight loss drugs to "many millions" of people, as experts hailed the start of a "golden age" of anti-obesity treatments.

On January 1, 2022, the 11th version of the ICD was released without the term “old age”—or language that suggests aging is a disease—in its contents. The decision wasn’t welcomed by ...