People with dementia who had a parent with the condition tend to develop symptoms years earlier, and even sooner if both parents had it.

New findings on cellular sleep suggest it's not as harmless as once thought. Finding the "dimmer switch" could be a way to fight aging, say researchers.

"Humanity has been lodging the same complaints against 'kids these days' for at least 2,600 years," if not longer. A new study suggests why.

A long-term study finds that a simple test of walking speed may detect signs of aging at age 45, and that the brains of slower walkers were different in preschool.

"We have known for a long time that we humans have a unique fertility curve." New research offers an explanation.

Experiencing racial discrimination early in life puts African-American youth at greater risk of accelerated aging, which could signal health issues to come.

An abundance of the ApoE protein, also associated with Alzheimer's and heart disease, may explain why older people have more trouble healing broken bones.

A new study that followed first-year college students until they were in their 40s shows that narcissism tends to decline as we age.

A new method uses exosomes harvested from human skin cells to repair sun damage. In a test with mice, it proved more effective than the leading treatments.

New research on high blood pressure in pregnancy links the trend to age and race.