A consultant geriatrician told Newsweek that maintaining strength as you age can provide a vital buffer against illness.

Lower-cost access to certain weight loss drugs may help more Medicare enrollees, but experts urge careful conversations about interactions, dehydration and other concerns.

Year after year, Mary Bucklew strategized with a nurse practitioner about losing weight. “We tried exercise,” like walking 35 minutes a day, she recalled. “And 39,000 different diets.” But 5 pounds ...

GLP-1 medications have been tied to a concerning effect in older adults.

Among older adults with overweight or obesity undergoing a weight-loss intervention, those with a higher protein intake had increased hip bone strength in the short term but no significant change in ...

An Australian study suggests that HIIT exercises could be optimal for body composition in older age. Image credit: rbkomar/Getty Images A study suggests high-intensity interval training (HIIT) can ...

We were shocked. An old acquaintance whom we had not seen for more than five years greeted us at a funeral for a mutual friend. “He is so thin,“ my friend whispered to me as he (let’s call him Bernie) ...

Zepbound is a dual glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) and glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) receptor agonist ...

A small but carefully monitored 20-week study reveals that semaglutide delivers weight loss in older adults without immediate harm to bone density, raising new questions about what longer-term use of ...

Wegovy (semaglutide) is a glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...