Can old dogs teach us new tricks? Scientists are looking for 10,000 pets for the largest-ever study of aging in canines. They hope to shed light on...
Women are at higher risk for stroke and have different stroke symptoms than men. New research suggests another difference: less benefit from a...
The drug company Biogen Inc. said Tuesday it will seek federal approval for a medicine to treat early Alzheimer’s disease, a landmark step toward...
Breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in women. One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer during her lifetime. Doctors...
The flu forecast is cloudy and it’s too soon to know if the U.S. is in for a third miserable season in a row, but health officials said Thursday...
Red, yellow, green. It’s a system for conveying the healthfulness of foods, and at the center of a debate about how to approach weight loss for...
Retirement coach Sara Zeff Geber visited several Northern California assisted-living facilities to interview “solo agers” – people, either single...
Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate!We’ve probably heard it a million times, and because of that we started to tune it out – this is called neural adaptation...