Anti-ageing News

Tree pulp has anti-ageing benefits

An Ontario teenager who recently moved from Singapore to Canada won a national science award for her groundbreaking work on the anti-ageing properties of tree pulp, officials said.

Cost of ageing rising fast

People worldwide are living three years longer than expected on average, pushing up the costs of ageing by 50%, and governments and pension funds are ill prepared, the IMF said.

Social factors affect your lifespan

A group of socioeconomic factors such as education, income and work are better indicators of your chances of living to age 70 than race or geography, a new study shows.

Chin implant surgery boom

The number of women and men having cosmetic chin surgery increased drastically in 2011 with the growth in chin augmentation procedures greater than breast augmentation, Botox injections and liposuction combined.

Immortality for asexual worms

British scientists have found that a species of flatworm can overcome the process of ageing to become potentially immortal.

Facelifts take off 7 years

A small, new study finds that people who had facial plastic surgery looked an average of seven years younger than they did before the procedure.

Plastic surgery advice from Twitter

A growing number of Americans are getting advice and information about facial plastic surgery from social networking sites rather than friends, a new survey indicates.

Nonagenarians tripled

The ranks of the nation's oldest residents are growing quickly now that people who reach age 90 are expected to live longer than ever before, according to a study released.

New advances in anti-ageing

Scientists are beginning to decode the complex biology of ageing and are optimistic that advances in research may lead to treatments that can reverse degeneration and disease.

Beauty in a pill

Skimpy eyelashes and wrinkles aren't diseases, but they may as well be in a society that "medicalises" normal conditions by producing drugs not to cure or heal, but to enhance.