New research suggests that surviving cancer at a young age may accelerate aging in both the body and brain. A new study finds that people who survive cancer during adolescence or early adulthood tend ...

Farren Buckley, from Brisbane, was living her best life until an unexpected diagnosis turned everything upside down.

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Beyond smart watches and rings, artificial intelligence is being used to make self-testing for major diseases more readily available -- from headsets that detect early signs of Alzheimer's to an ...

We must dismantle ageist attitudes that assume older people don’t want to maintain their sexuality, especially with respect ...

A team of Canadian scientists has uncovered a new way to slow the growth of glioblastoma, the most aggressive and currently ...

New research reveals that certain brain tumors may originate silently within normal brain cells long before a tumor forms.

A molecule produced by cancer cells can shield the brain from Alzheimer’s disease in mice. For decades, researchers have ...

Scientists have discovered that breast cancer can quietly throw the brain’s internal clock off balance—almost immediately after cancer begins. In mice, tumors flattened the natural daily rhythm of ...

A national clinical trial led by the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology has found that abemaciclib, an oral cancer drug, may slow tumor growth in patients with aggressive meningiomas that have ...

“It’s a common notion that only people with memory problems can be diagnosed with dementia, but behavioral changes or ...

A mom recalls her first symptoms of colorectal cancer, which she mistook for hemorrhoids caused by her pregnancy at the time.