The HBO series is peppered with references to real-life personages and historical events—but it lacks the anything-goes ...

Too often as patients age, doctors pile on prescriptions. The practice, known as polypharmacy, can be dangerous at any age but is particularly hazardous for elderly people, from raising the risk of ...

Brian Wilson's cause of death has been revealed weeks after the Beach Boys co-founder and primary songwriter died at the age ...

The relationship between sleep duration and health outcomes is a devil’s knot, though Kripke did his best to control for the usual confounds—age, sex, body-mass index ... s sleep-wake patterns ...

I am an outspoken person,” says Shirley Manson on a Zoom call from her home in Los Angeles. “It comes naturally to me, and it ...

At Johns Hopkins Hospital, music therapists use stirring rhythms and soothing melodies to support patients and their families ...

When she had spent three decades playing a game she loves, it was hard to walk away. That's the situation Angie Bjorklund found herself in a year ago when she retired from a second stint in ...

I ran four miles every day, did breathing exercises, listened to a meditation tape a friend gave me. Useless. I finally caved and saw my general practitioner, who prescribed Ambien, telling me to feel ...

Dementia rates vary dramatically across U.S. regions in ways that can't be explained by age, education, or health conditions.

A surprising new study suggests that dementia risk has declined with each generation. However, there are good reasons to be ...