You can hide the gray and use as many anti-wrinkle creams as you like. But the one part of growing older, if you’re a woman, that you can’t stave off is menopause. Menopause, which is defined as the time after which you haven’t had a period for 12 months, can come with a series of […]
On April 24, 2018, 72-year-old Joseph James DeAngelo, now known as the Golden State Killer, was apprehended and eventually charged with 13 counts of murder and 13 counts of attempted kidnapping, thanks to publicly shared genetic codes. No, DeAngelo didn’t submit a sample to find out what percentage Italian he was, but a distant relative […]
A fascinating study revealed interesting brain characteristics in older adults who aren’t aging like most. So-called SuperAgers have cognitive abilities like those of much younger people. Scientists at Northwestern’s Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center at the Feinberg School of Medicine are working to understand why some older adults’ brains function like those of people […]