A new brain scan tool shows how quickly your body and mind are aging. It can spot early signs of diseases like dementia, long ...

Scientists have unveiled a powerful new tool that uses a single brain scan to determine how quickly your body—and mind—are ...

Researchers report the first promising treatment for progeria, a rare and fatal rapid-aging disease in children. Skip to main content. WBUR. 90.0 WBUR - Boston's NPR News Station.

Around your mid-40s and again in your early 60s, your body might go through more dramatic changes than you expect. A recent ...

CHICAGO — Children with a rare, incurable disease that causes rapid aging and early death may live longer if treated with an experimental drug first developed for cancer patients, a study suggests.

They were born with a rare genetic disease that causes premature aging, making children and teenagers look like little old men and women. It affects just one in 8 million worldwide. But these brave… ...

A 44-year-old woman in Ohio is believed to be one of the oldest living survivors of progeria, a rapid aging disease which has her living in an elderly body. Primary Menu Sections.

Biomarkers enable detection of rapidly aging organs & disease risk. ... we found that 18.4% of those age 50 or older had at least one organ aging significantly more rapidly than the average ...

A clinical trial underway at Boston Children's Hospital is tackling progeria, the rare, rapid aging disease that impacts about 300 people worldwide. One of those people is a young woman who has ...

People with rapidly aging hearts had 2.5 times as high a risk of heart failure as people with normally aging hearts, even if they had no active disease or clinical risk factors, results showed.