Mobility tests can reveal important clues about strength and healthy aging, but experts caution they are not predictors of ...

Strength and mobility tests are often touted as measurements of healthy aging and even predictors of longevity, but they’re ...

The sit-to-stand test can help assess your muscle strength and balance. Walking speed is an important indicator of aging, with slower speeds linked to higher dementia risk and increased fall risk. The ...

UCLA researchers have created a blood test that can scan DNA signals for multiple cancers, liver diseases, and signs of organ damage—and even indicate where trouble may be developing. Early results ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

The Pentagon will transition from ANAM to an "improved capability" to further protect service members' brain health and test for TBIs.

We may age at different rates, but none of us escapes aging. A study in mice and in human cells by Stanford Medicine researchers has linked organ aging to the increased inability—with advancing age—of ...

A new research collaboration between the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), NASA Langley Research Center, and LifeNet Health has demonstrated the successful transportation of human kidneys by ...

Imagine a future where cancer treatment affects only the tumor, where eye injections are no longer required and brain surgeries don't result in large incisions or long recovery times. That's the ...

NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT—Just a day ago, the brain was in a living person. Now, hours after its owner died, it sits on a cart draped in tubes that quiver as they pump liters of blood substitute and ...