When we think about aging, we often imagine it as a uniform process—our entire body growing older in lockstep. But new research posits that aging doesn't work this way. Instead, our organs age at ...

A novel health-assessment tool uses eight metrics derived from a person's physical exam and routine lab tests to characterize biological age. It may be able to predict a person's risk of disability ...

Researchers have developed a new “body clock” tool that calculates people’s biological age — and could even predict the risk of disability or death. The tool, which comes from the University of ...

Climbing power isn’t just about weight—it’s about body composition, and the best body fat percentage for your performance ...

The earlier the age a child received a smartphone the greater the health risk. Children who have smartphones by age 12 are at higher risk of lack of sleep, obesity and depression, according to a new ...

Jonathon Headrick is affiliated with Exercise & Sports Science Australia (ESSA). Joel Garrett does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would ...

A fascinating new study from Stanford Medicine has identified two critical ages when human aging processes significantly accelerate, potentially changing our understanding of how we approach health ...

UW Medicine biology of aging researchers Daniel Raftery (left) and Shabnam Salimi worked on the Health Octo Tool to characterize people's biological ages and predict their risk of disability and death ...

Researchers have developed a new "body clock" tool that calculates people’s biological age — and could even predict the risk of disability or death. The tool, which comes from the University of ...