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Are you ageing well? Take the five-part quiz that could help change your future
1+ week, 6+ day ago (736+ words) Most of us want to enjoy later life feeling strong, connected, and mentally sharp. But how often do we stop to think about whether the things we’re doing right now are helping us get there? A new quiz – which we…...
Brain cells that protect nerve fibers can turn harmful with age
5+ hour, 49+ min ago (943+ words) A surplus of insulating brain cells, low on one protective protein, tracked the steepest cognitive decline in adults followed since childhood. After 70, memory and quick thinking slow down for most people, and the usual explanation is that the brain’s wiring…...
Gut Bacteria May Reveal Brain Aging Decades Before Symptoms Appear
1+ hour, 55+ min ago (636+ words) The earliest fingerprints of an aging brain may be visible not in memory lapses or mood changes, but in an unexpected place: the gut....
Daily Step Counts Reveal Frailty Trajectories in Lung Cancer Patients
4+ hour, 19+ min ago (76+ words) A new prospective longitudinal study of 327 patients with lung cancer undergoing radiotherapy has found that something as ordinary as a daily step count, captured silently by a smartphone app, can reveal which patients are likely to slip into worsening frailty…...
Gut Microbe Link Revealed in Down Syndrome Obesity Risk
4+ hour, 27+ min ago (89+ words) People with Down syndrome face a markedly elevated risk of obesity and its metabolic complications compared with the general population, yet the biological reasons behind this vulnerability have remained frustratingly opaque. Now, a team of French researchers has traced part…...
Future Doctors, Pharmacists and Nurses Feel Ready to Tackle Overtreatment,
4+ hour, 42+ min ago (55+ words) Medicine has long been celebrated for its power to prescribe, but one of the most pressing challenges in modern healthcare is knowing when to stop. Deprescribing, the planned and supervised process of tapering or stopping medications whose harms may outweigh…...
Nanoparticles Emerge as a Powerful New Weapon Against Cellular Aging
5+ hour, 15+ min ago (87+ words) Cellular senescence, one of the most closely studied hallmarks of aging, has long been a paradox in biology. On the one hand, it protects organisms by halting the division of damaged cells that might otherwise become cancerous. On the other,…...
Cognitive Strategy Training at Home Shows Very Large Effects After Brain
5+ hour, 48+ min ago (77+ words) For the millions of people who survive a stroke or traumatic brain injury each year, the most stubborn obstacles to recovery are often invisible. While paralysed limbs and unsteady gait attract immediate clinical attention, the cognitive aftershocks—faltering attention, scrambled…...
TIMP2 Protein Levels and Gene Variants Trace Ageing and Neurodegeneration
6+ hour, 1+ min ago (641+ words) A single protein long suspected of linking the ageing brain to neurodegenerative disease is stepping into the spotlight....