A new study established a link between these common mouth bacteria and an increased dementia risk. Here's what to know about ...

Do functional foods targeted at brain or cognitive health deliver the benefits they claim and often at added expense to the ...

People who sit on the low or high side of normal vitamin B12 levels are still at risk of cognitive impairment, according to a ...

While your risk of dementia does go up with age, around 40 per cent of cases could actually be prevented by making certain ...

Dementia affects around 900,000 people in the UK and is more common in people over the age of 65, but age is not the only ...

Genetics played a surprisingly minor role in overall longevity. Age and sex explained 47% of the variability in mortality, ...

The team found that environmental factors explained 17 per cent of the variation in risk of death, compared to less than 2 ...

Case study summary NHS Walsall Clinical Commissioning Group commissioned the role of Dementia Support Workers to provide specialist evidence-based advice, development sessions and support to care home ...

Nurture is more influential than nature when it comes to number of major diseases and premature death, according to a new study. Environmental factors are almost 10 times more important than genetic ...

The largest study of its kind has revealed how both genetics and lifestyle play a role in developing certain age-related diseases, such as dementia, lung cancer and heart disease ...

New research suggests that bacteria in your mouth and on your tongue may be connected to changes in brain function as you age ...