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Twenty-five years after the September 11 terrorist attacks, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have uncovered...

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Aging research has long been haunted by an intuitive assumption: that when older adults grow physically weak, their minds tend...

Thirty years after a small group of European professors of geriatric medicine first warned that the continent's fastest-growing population was...

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A new study has added fresh evidence to one of the most debated questions in the science of aging: how...