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Recent contact with young children linked to trebling of risk of over-60s acquiring pneumonia-causing bacteria.

Star Khechara, 48, the creator of The Facelift Diet, and author of the Holistic Beauty Book, said those who want to look young can skip the Botox and go right for a bowl of berries. 

The first Board of Supervisors meeting of February will take place on Feb. 6 beginning at 8:30 a.m. in the Sierra Room of the Community Center located at 851 E. William Street. On the docket for discussion is board appointments for wildlife management, a grant application for wildfire fuel reduction, vehicle donations, and more.

Kat Brady dedicates her lifes work to reshaping Hawaiis criminal justice system. Brady, the founder of Community Alliance on Prisons (CAP), established the nonprofit in 1998 with a commitment to

Seniors who are hospitalized with even a minor illness or injury are at risk of something called hospital-acquired disability. This puts them at risk of a downward spiral that could eventually land them in the hospital or a nursing home.

A high-performance coach shared some significant highlights of an eight-week experiment that reduced the biological age of six women. Anyone can follow the simple protocol without full compliance and still increase the chances of prolonging their life span.

Ironically, the first person to be diagnosed with what is now Alzheimer’s disease was missing its major risk factor. When she first began showing symptoms of dementia in 1901, Auguste Deter was not particularly old. Despite Deter’s case, aging is the largest risk factor for developing Alzheimer’s, by a large margin. But “geroscience has not been translated into drugs for Alzheimer’s disease,” Howard Fillit, Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation co-founder and chief scientific offic...

The Waterbury Area Senior Center buzzed with anticipation last Thursday as a standing-room-only crowd gathered to speak with U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Surveying the...

Responses to an Opinion article by Frank Bruni. Also: Investing in Ukraine; Gabriel García Márquez’s last novel; America’s gun culture.

Last week, by chance, I visited a local older adults’ welfare center that is run and supported by a city district office. There, I luckily could look around several venues where various programs were in operation. Older adults were actively participating according to their tastes and needs. They were trying to learn and master something in a classroom atmosphere. In particular, the cultural and artistic courses were very popular. I felt a lot about the meaning of aging and lifelong learning.