ACM impedes the heart from pumping blood to the rest of the body, and is a leading cause of sudden cardiac death in young ...

PPT1 is a recombinant protein used to treat an ultra-rare disease called Batten disease CLN1 for which there is ...

Ray J said his heart is “mostly black” after a recent hospitalization. Here’s what the term means and what he has shared ...

A new study suggests that those with long-lived families probably have the best prospects of making it to a very old age.

A person’s genes play a far greater role in likely lifespan than previously thought, according to a major new study published ...

The panel, developed by Penn and Mayo researchers within an NCI project, is currently undergoing prospective testing to see ...

About 55% of the human lifespan is heritable, meaning that more than half of the observed variation in longevity across a ...

How big of a role do our genes play in our lifespan? Quite a bit more than previously thought, a new study suggests.

A reanalysis of twin data from Denmark and Sweden suggests that how long we live now depends roughly equally on the genes we ...

New research challenges the view that human life span depends mostly on lifestyle. Genes may account for half the factors ...

Scientists have long believed that longevity is shaped by lifestyle choices; however, a new study reveals that genes may play a larger role in determining how long people live.

Many factors influence how long you live, such as diet, exercise, smoking, drinking, environment and other variables. It also ...