Most of us don’t worry about our health in old age until we get there, but research is increasingly showing that how you live in your mid-50s can have a real impact in your 90s ...

The near absence of tobacco in the Amish community–some men do smoke cigars–results in a 63% lower rate of tobacco-related cancers, according to a 2004 study of Ohio’s Amish population. The Amish also ...

Is there a way to spend a healthy old age without pain, walking on two legs? Hong Jeong-gi, Director of the Graduate School of Sports Medicine at CHA University, who has trained numerous national ...

A new study suggests that those with long-lived families probably have the best prospects of making it to a very old age. By Gina Kolata Gina Kolata recently reported on a study of the genes of the ...

A friend of mine in his early 60s recently fell off a shed he was building. The shattered bone and the lengthy rehab would be hard on anyone. Should he expect, though, to return to optimal mental and ...