A new study suggests that routine clinical measurements, which are widely available and repeatedly collected, may provide a practical way to assess aging at population scale. The study, which was published in Nature Aging on August 25, analyzed routine clinical data from 104,208 adults aged 18–98 across three centers in China. It established sex-specific clinical aging clocks based on 172 commonly measured indicators and provided a practical approach to estimating physiological aging from routine health examinations.

Results from a clinical trial funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and published today in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases show that the antiviral drug, PAXLOVID, commonly prescribed to treat acute COVID-19, does not have an impact on Long COVID symptoms when compared to placebo.

Regular aerobic exercise – the kind that gets your heart pumping – can improve important thinking skills called executive functions, and the benefits appear especially strong for women after menopause, according to Rutgers researchers.

New research from the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine provides insight into how binge alcohol exposure during adolescence may cause lasting changes in brain function that persist into adulthood, potentially identifying a new target for future treatment approaches.

The study, published August 15 in Molecular Psychiatry, found that intermittent ethanol exposure during adolescence disrupted communication between astrocytes—supportive brain cells increasingly recognized for their role in neural signaling—and synapses in the hippocampus, a region of the brain important for learning and memory.