April 10, 2018
At first sight the global growth in Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia looks terrifying. The World Health Organisation’s latest estimates, released in December, put […]
March 7, 2018
Launched in 2009, ANCIEN is a research project financed under the 7th EU Research Framework Programme. It ran for a 44-month period and involved 20 partners […]
June 28, 2017
Okinawa is sort of a Japanese Hawaii — an exotic, laid-back group of islands with warm weather, palm trees, and sugar-sand beaches. For almost a thousand […]
May 29, 2017
Despite the physical ravages of age, older people are actually happier than younger adults. So finds a new study, published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, […]
May 29, 2017
Because the immune system’s defence mechanisms become impaired as we grow older, our ability to resist infection progressively declines. So does our ability to respond effectively […]
May 2, 2017
Perhaps you have experienced moments when you felt truly connected, like you were performing a task you were made for – maybe when you were organizing […]
February 22, 2017
To answer the question, we teamed up with National Geographic to find the world’s longest-lived people and study them. We knew most of the answers lied […]
