Being happy doesn't just improve the quality of your life. According to a new study, it may increase the quantity of your life as well.
Scientists have known for some time that people who constantly worry tend to die at a younger age than others, but the cause wasn't clear.
Divorce causes more than bitterness and broken hearts. The trauma of a split can leave long-lasting effects on mental and physical health that remarriage might not repair, according to research released this week.
In 1970, when doctors diagnosed Greek-American Yiannis Karimalis with stomach cancer and only gave him a few months to live, he decided to move back to Ikaria, his birth island. There, he reasoned, he could be buried more inexpensively among his fellow Greeks. But when he moved back to the island he didn't die. He has lived nearly 40 years more. And when he returned to America on a recent visit, he discovered that his doctors were all dead.
Researchers are studying whether blood pressure drugs can be used to treat Alzheimer's.
Patients in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease who performed better on a treadmill test had less atrophy in the areas of the brain that control memory
The brains of people with the memory-robbing form of dementia are cluttered with a plaque made up of beta-amyloid, a sticky protein
Marion Somers may be an expert on caring for elderly people, but that didn't mean it was a cinch persuading her father to quit driving.
For most of human history, long life was exceedingly rare.
For some, the search for the fountain of youth means downing fruit-flavored potions they believe give them more energy. Others look for it in the creams and lotions they rub on their crows' feet in hopes that the wrinkles will magically disappear. Still, there are those of us who think a true fountain of youth would deliver the answer to one of the mysteries of middle-age life: Where did I put my car keys?
Wouldn't this be fabulous: Drink loads of wine, eat whatever you want, get fat -- and then pop a pill and you'll actually live longer and have more endurance.
The week after Labor Day, I got down to some serious retirement planning: I raced in five events at the 2006 World Masters Rowing Regatta, a competition that attracts some 3,000 rowers with an aver...
Alzheimer's affects 4.5 million Americans and its financial costs are just as far-reaching as the emotional affects.
The power of wishful thinking guarantees that just about anything can be successfully marketed as an elixir of youth. Pee, for instance. A multitude of websites extol the ability of "urine therapy"...
Hope I die before I get old. PETE TOWNSHEND 1966
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