- Vitamins: Potential damage to body's defences
Vitamin supplements are a billion-dollar industry. We want to stay healthy and fit and help our bodies with this. But perhaps we are achieving precisely the opposite?
- Regular physical activity in later life boosts likelihood of 'healthy aging' up to sevenfold
It’s never too late to get physically active, with even those starting relatively late in life reaping significant health benefits, finds research.
- Brain imaging differences in infants at genetic risk for Alzheimer's
Researchers have found that infants who carry a gene associated with an increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease tend to have differences in brain development compared to infants who do not carry the gene. The findings do not mean that these infants will get Alzheimer’s, but they may be a step toward understanding how this gene confers risk much later in life.
