Robin Seaton Jefferson, Contributor

The new guidelines are “grounded in the most current scientific evidence” and informed by a Federal advisory committee composed of prestigious researchers in the fields of physical activity, health and medicine.

A newly discovered way to get drugs into the brain could significantly change how we treat Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS and brain cancer.

In over six decades of work, researchers with the world’s longest and most comprehensive study on aging say they are certain of just two things.

With someone developing the disease every 65 seconds in the United States and some 5.7 million people already living with it, you’d think it would be easy to find volunteers for Alzheimer’s research. Not so, say the nation’s leaders on the study of agi…

Addressing the common causes of excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) could have huge implications for the prevention of Alzheimer’s disease.

Despite years of warnings that older adults shouldn’t take benzodiazepines—such as Xanax, Ativan and Valium—for safety reasons, the study revealed that primary care doctors are still prescribing them, a lot.

Ansh Labs said its kit is the “first approved AMH test with the sensitivity to quantify declining AMH concentrations in women who are entering their menopausal transition.”

There is immense potential here to advance human health by driving new discoveries that enable more accurate disease risk prediction, tailored diagnostics and prevention and treatment strategies.

A former powerlifter and biologist says exercise, and in particular strength training, is “absolutely critical” for people as they age. And he says the science backs it up.

Prevalence of Alzheimer’s and related dementias in African Americans is 64% higher than for Caucasians, a new study says. And Hispanics are one and half times as likely to have ADRD than non-Hispanic whites.