For many people, aging feels like it happens in stops and starts. After a period of smooth sailing, one day, seemingly out of the blue, you have achy knees. “You wake up in the morning and you suddenly feel old,” said Dr. Steve Hoffmann, a computational biology professor at the Leibniz Institute on Aging in […]
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“Absolutely not,” Branden Jacobs-Jenkins declared. Leslye Headland chuckled. “Oh never, no.” “I don’t know anyone who could!” was Samuel D. Hunter’s astonished response. “Not really,” hedged Bess Wohl. “Until maybe last year.” The question that brought such universal denials from four frequently produced, much-awarded American playwrights was: “Have you ever made enough to live on […]
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In 2019, I divorced, at age 46, and went on to have more and better sex than I ever would have thought possible. I had not imagined that the end of a 20-year relationship would mean a new era of high eroticism; I’d have needed to be delusional to think that. I was middle-aged, with […]
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More Americans are surviving cancer, but the disease is striking young and middle-aged adults and women more frequently, the American Cancer Society reported on Thursday. And despite overall improvements in survival, Black and Native Americans are dying of some cancers at rates two to three times higher than those among white Americans. These trends represent […]
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Americans are drinking more as they hit midlife — and suffering the consequences. People between the ages of 35 and 50 reported record-high levels of binge drinking in 2022. One recent study found that the greatest increase in heavy alcohol use between 2018 and 2022 was among people in their 40s. Doctors are particularly concerned […]
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