In Wales, the date on a birth certificate decided who could get a free shingles vaccine and who never could. Adults who received the shot were 20% less likely to be newly diagnosed with dementia over the following seven years,… Read More →
People whose midlife diets scored in the top fifth for quality had about 86% greater odds of reaching age 70 in good health than people whose diets scored in the bottom fifth. Good health here meant something strict: free of… Read More →
Heart-health advice tends to stop arriving past a certain age, on the quiet assumption that it no longer changes anything. A study spanning ages 30 to 116 found otherwise. Among people who had passed 100, the healthiest cardiovascular-health scores went… Read More →
Getting down to the floor and back up sounds like nothing. Cross-legged on the way down, standing on the way up, with no hand, no knee and no chair to lean on. Among 4,282 middle-aged and older adults scored on… Read More →
